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...inmates. Rations were less than meager. Inmates were beaten and abused. There was virtually no medical attention, and epidemics broke out. In March 1945 nearly 20,000 people died either from starvation, typhus or maltreatment. One of the victims was a 15-year-old Dutch girl, Anne Frank...
Late in the war, two B-17 bombers collided over Belgium at 13,500 ft., and one of them was sheared in two. From the main section, one crewman succeeded in bailing out, but the rest crashed to their deaths. In the tail, Joe Frank Jones Jr., a 19-year-old gunner, tried to get out the escape hatch, found it jammed. He tried the window, but it was too small. He was trapped inside the plunging fragment. When Belgian peasants found him lying in a field, still alive, they took him to a hospital. There he lay unconscious...
Loudoun County officials were pleased at the prospect of Xeroxville. About 40 acres of the property have already been used by the firm for its corporate training center, and local relations are scented with magnolias and peach blossoms. Says Frank Raflo, chairman of the county board of supervisors: "If things were any better, I couldn't stand it." STEEL The Biggest Bankruptcy...
...reversal of any conviction on the basis of recanted testimony alone is rare; there has never been one in Illinois. In Massachusetts three months ago, a judge overturned the 1974 first-degree-murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed...
When David Stockman addressed the board of the New York Stock Exchange last month, he was astonishingly frank about the Government's use of subterfuge in putting together the budget. "We have increasingly resorted to squaring the circle with accounting gimmicks, evasions, half-truths and down right dishonesty in our budget numbers, debate and advocacy," said he. "Indeed, if the SEC had jurisdiction over the Executive and Legislative branches, many of us would be in jail...