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...women facing execution are confined in another Raleigh prison. The rapid influx has long since filled the 42 dingy cells in Central's F-block that were originally designated death row, and some inmates are being held in other cell blocks. Says Warden Sam Garrison: "If this keeps up, we will have to start doubling up the men in the cells...
...worker-led urban militia-apparently to counter the P.L.A.'s role as a national police force. In one remarkable slight to the professional military, Shanghai's model militia force was pa raded before a group of the city's top political leaders; incredibly, the local P.L.A. garrison commander was not even invited to the event. Returning the insult, a majority of P.L.A. regional commanders, in what looks like an act of open insubordination, reportedly refused to attend a meeting called by Peking's central leadership...
...only Radcliffe loss came in a close number one doubles match, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6 as Sally Burfort and Mellisa Garrison of Wellesley edged the Radcliffe duo of juniors Ginger St. Goar and Maude Wood...
Struggling Cowgirls. "Rodeo is tough," says Steer Wrestler Walt Garrison, who doubles as a Dallas Cowboy running back during the football season. "You got to be in good shape." The cowboys are all business as they wait their turn to compete, watching the action to pick up pointers or carefully dowsing their gloves and chaps in resin to improve the grip. "These fellows have changed a lot," says Frank Barrett, rodeo doctor at Cheyenne Frontier Days (attendance this year: 101,000) for 23 years. "I can remember when cowboys used to squat down and drink up before riding. I treated...
...Clay L. Shaw, 61, the only person ever to stand trial for the assassination of President John Kennedy; of cancer; in New Orleans. In 1967, two years after his retirement as managing director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart, Shaw was accused by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill J.F.K. After many months of noisy proceedings-during which Garrison produced a motley assortment of informants and witnesses-the jury took less than an hour to acquit Shaw in March 1969. Garrison then tried to prosecute Shaw for perjury but was stymied...