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...bore the commissions no ill will. There were no lawsuits to get his title back through the courts. No need, he said, to punish them for doing what they thought was right. Quite properly, in his mind, he won back the title in the ring, knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round of their fight in Zaire--the "Rumble in the Jungle...
...stop killing with killing. I think morally it doesn't work," said Shelagh A. Foreman, a board member of Peace Action and chair of its programs committee...
John King grew up among blacks and went to school with them. (The black jury foreman was a classmate at Jasper High School.) King's life took a bad turn after his junior year of high school, when he was arrested for burglary--along with Shawn Berry, one of the two men with him in the pickup last June. The two were sent to boot camp together. Upon release, however, King violated probation and was given an eight-year prison term in July...
...when Southern prosecutors found ways to lose--or not to bring--race cases like this one. The defense presented only three witnesses; its entire case lasted less than an hour. Although the jury had 11 whites and just one black, corrections officer Joe Collins, the sole black, was elected foreman. Jasper's black community hoped for the best but braced for the worst. "Even if you know something is right and that you should get a certain verdict, sometimes you don't get it," says Unav Wade, owner of a beauty salon on the courthouse square. "If it's between...
...George Foreman, former heavyweight champion