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...When the firemen arrived, they were struck by an unusual silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like, cinder-block building, and the men assumed that it was a minor fire. But when they pried open an emergency exit at Le Cinq-Sept, a popular dance hall for youths in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont near Grenoble, two of the firemen fainted. Bodies were stacked before them in ghastly contortions of agony. Fists were literally fried against the locked door. Impressions of hands, arms and heads were fused into the cement wall. Almost...
...serious bodily injury" when they fired, and were "therefore" innocent of any crime under Ohio law. The guilt, said the grand jury, fell upon 25 persons, mostly students or former students, who were indicted on various counts of rioting, burning the university's ROTC building and interfering with firemen...
What Negro and the other firemen soon discovered was the most gruesome mass murder in the U.S. since the Tate slayings. In the lagoon-shaped swimming pool in front of the $250,000 house were the bodies of Victor Ohta, 46. his wife Virginia, 43, their sons, Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11, and the doctor's secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader, 38. Ohta, one of California's most prominent eye surgeons, had been shot twice in the back and once under the arm. The others had been shot in the head, and all were bound with their hands in front...
Also indicted was Richard Felber, 21, a former Kent student. He was charged with first-degree rioting, attempted arson and obstructing firemen. Helber is about to serve a 20-to 40-year sentence, convicted on three charges of selling hallucinogens...
...groups to determine local needs, Bowker pushed C.U.N.Y. into offering a host of services for the city, including research in welfare problems and the oceanographic vessel Atlantic Twin, which studies pollution in New York harbor. C.U.N.Y. now trains teachers' aides and paraprofessional nurses. It retrains retired cops and firemen to fill critical shortages in nursing, teaches city planning to neighborhood leaders and runs eleven centers for teaching thousands of jobless adults such skills as how to repair air conditioners and mold plastics...