Word: fates
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Bobby Caldwell had been convicted of killing a grocery store owner in the course of a robbery, and a Mississippi jury was deciding his fate. After pleading for Caldwell's life, his lawyer concluded rather conventionally by telling the jurors that theirs was an "awesome responsibility." The prosecutor then rose and, surprisingly, challenged this cliche. The jurors' burden was not so great, he implied, since every death sentence is reviewable by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The jury voted for death...
Perhaps nothing so aptly epitomized the chaos of Lebanon for Americans last week as the fate of the body of the young man, said by the hijackers to be a U.S. Marine, who had been murdered on Flight 847. After lying on the tarmac for two hours, the body, with a bullet wound in the head, had been taken by an International Red Cross ambulance to a morgue at the American University Hospital in Muslim West Beirut. U.S. officials, based on the other side of the "green line" in Christian-dominated East Beirut, were unable to retrieve...
Anyone caught spying against the Soviet Union is worse than an enemy and deserving of a fate worse than mere execution. After Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in military intelligence, was discovered to be working for the CIA in 1962, he was put to death. The assumption at the time was that he had been shot. Subsequently, however, it was reported that in fact he was hurled alive into a crematorium furnace. Thus, there is a brutal converse of the Soviet Union's adulation of spies who serve its cause around the world...
...ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed to the Wall Street Journal last week. Nonetheless, the 14-term Congressman may be perfect for the task. Ultimately, late-night deals, not lofty ideals, will determine the fate of President Reagan's plan in Congress...
...ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed to the Wall Street Journal last week. Nonetheless, the 14-term Congressman may be perfect for the task. Ultimately, late-night deals, not lofty ideals, will determine the fate of President Reagan's plan in Congress...