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Grisly Mess. The grim series of discoveries in Yuba City began one morning two weeks ago, when Goro Kagehiro, a Japanese-American grower who has orchards just north of town, glanced down between two rows of peach trees and noticed a freshly dug hole about the size of a grave. When he returned that evening, the hole had been completely covered up. Uneasy, he came back next day with the deputies, who soon found the first dead man. What followed turned into a grisly mess that outranks the more gruesome mass murders of the recent American past: the 1966 killing...
Absenteeism regularly affects about 5% of the work force, or 230,000 people, and consumption of alcoholic beverages has increased noticeably. One subtle indication of resentment is the array of vigil candles and fresh flowers regularly placed around the Prague grave of Jan Palach, the student who publicly immolated himself in 1969 to protest the Russian occupation...
...death brought an abrupt end to Castro's hopes of local revolutions and catalyzed a revision of domestic policies. Yet, as in 1961 when Castro turned communist, he only partially rethought development problems. Chronic food shortages, bad distribution and grave imbalance between supply and demand due to the island's "socialist inflation" all pressed Castro in 1968 to decide upon a new era of belt tightening which after five years would bring the island out of underdevelopment. Karol remained pessimistic of this plan, pointing out that Fidel envisioned a quick political solution ignoring the real problem of changing social relationships...
...letter to the CRR. Kennedy said that Rothchild's conduct showed "grave disrespect for the dignity of others." Rothchild said last night that Kennedy's failure to comment on the pond drownings "amounts to much more than grave disrespect; it amounts to murder...
...literary pun. "Owen" in old Scottish means "young soldier," so that James' title suggests "young soldier who wins his grave...