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...Merhige handed down a sharply worded ruling that found the state's prison officials guilty of "grave disregard of constitutional guarantees." This time he cited specific illegal actions: bread-and-water diets, arbitrary use of tear gas, extended periods of solitary confinement, placing prisoners naked in a hot, roach-infested cell, and taping, chaining or handcuffing inmates to cell bars. The monetary award reflected the loss of prison pay through unconstitutional solitary confinement, plus what Merhige called "reasonable sums for pain and suffering...
...streets of Saigon were filled with joy and vengeance on Nov. 1, 1963-the day that South Vietnamese generals stormed Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace and sent him to his grave. First came the long night of siege and the thunder of tanks in battle at the palace walls. Then came the final rush through the grounds by Diem's once faithful soldiers. As the battle subsided, I caught the first glimpse of a white flag waving tentatively from a first-floor palace window. In a minute or so the air was filled with silence-and with...
...baby's body found and identified by skull, hair, teeth, etc., in woods on Hope-well-Mount Rose road. Killed by a blow on head. . . I feel strangely a sense of peace-not peace, but an end to restlessness, a finality, as though I were sleeping in a grave...
...dead were buried in a common grave. There was one additional casualty when mourning relatives discovered a boy picking the pockets of the victims and pummeled him to death. Nigerian authorities hoped that the crash -and two days later the near crash of a chartered Ethiopian Airlines jet whose pilot, trying to land at Lagos airport, clipped the top of a tree-might dissuade some of the 30,000 Nigerian Moslems who annually make the hadj to Mecca. The shuttle is a drain on the country's foreign currency reserves. Beyond that, the government suspects that some Moslems...
...real life as well as in countless novels, plays and films, the arrival of a priest to administer the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning: the patient was virtually given up for dead. Those whose condition was not in fact so grave could be given a nasty turn by the sight of the priest with his vial of holy oil. Now Pope Paul VI has changed all that. The sacrament, called "the anointing of the sick" since Vatican II, will hereafter be used not only for those who are in imminent danger of death...