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Easterling and his two co-defendants, Richard S. Allen and Edward J. Soares, were found guilty of murdering Puopolo in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year. The court found that the prosecution in the first trial had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. Easterling, Soares and Allen are black...
...hours driving from the nearest settlement, was a testament to the size of the American health care establishment. Within 45 minutes, the accident victims had been looked over by two doctors and two nurses, bandaged by a service corpsman and given helpful advice by an Eagle Scout with advanced first aid training. An hour later the ambulances and police arrived...
...section this week, on the occasion of Reagan's formal announcement of his candidacy for the White House. Says Stacks: "What I expect to be doing in the coming months is a great deal of flying-on big planes, medium-sized ones, little ones. Constant motion is the first rule of political coverage. The variety of places to visit and sources to see is the best protection against misunderstanding the politics of any campaign year...
Pennsylvania-born Stacks, who lives in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md., majored in political science at Yale ('64) and got his first journalistic exposure to national politics as a general assignment reporter for the Washington Star. By the 1968 campaign he had joined TIME, for which he covered the Democratic candidates through the election. In 1972, as Boston bureau chief, he followed the New England primaries, and in 1976 he was part of the Washington bureau team that trailed the Carter-Mondale campaign. After taking a leave from his correspondent's duties-first to help Watergate...
...until last Saturday, after a week of retaliation and counterretaliation, that the first apparent break in the conflict came. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's de facto head of state, ordered the students to release the women and blacks, believed to number a dozen, who were being held hostage. "Islam grants to women a special status," explained Khomeini in announcing his decision, and blacks "have spent ages under American pressure and tyranny...