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...point during the trial, George banged his fist on the railing and denounced "those goddamned hypocrites" in Congress. "Congress wanted to set somebody up," he shouted, "and I walked right into it." Nonsense. As former Senator Thomas Eagleton testified, Congress just wanted the truth. "((We)) didn't put a noose around Clair George's neck," said Eagleton. "Clair George put a noose around his neck...
...clenched-fist salute and the pinched smile were familiar, but the performance was mere bravado. Erich Honecker, 79, once the leader of the defunct German Democratic Republic, made a small show of defiance as he walked out of the Chilean embassy in Moscow after seven months spent in asylum there. Only a small crowd of supporters were on hand as he left for Berlin, where he can expect to stand trial on 49 charges of manslaughter. The indictments stem from the deaths of East Germans trying to flee across the old inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified...
...that requires response from health officials. According to new A.M.A. guidelines, physicians should routinely screen female patients for incidents of abuse. "Domestic violence is rampant, and doctors are part of the problem," says Novello. "We have to retrain some of us to believe that domestic violence with a fist is as important as violence with...
...thought if there was a ruling class, then lawyers were a chain-mail fist," Turow said...
...Correspondent Sylvester Monroe, who has covered the Rodney King story throughout, was one of the first journalists to witness the early arson and looting. As Monroe was driving through South Central -- the focal point of the riot -- looters who noticed him would flash the black-power sign, a clenched fist, and he would flash it back. Says Monroe: "That's how I managed to move through the community that night without being attacked or shot as some reporters were...