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...Pamela Griffen, SAN DIEGO...
...Local residents say there was widespread approval for English Heritage's plan, except for a small but vocal group of residents who lived near the projected visitors center. "Most people supported it; something needs to be done," says Mark Griffen, who runs The Bell pub in Amesbury. English Heritage is still trying. The group expects to disclose four new possible options within a few weeks. How much, if any, future opposition it encounters will likely depend on where it next wants to locate the center. As for the roads, any new plan will probably include closing the A344. But little...
...Fischer case, the under-age girl and her mother could not be found to testify. But Fischer's defense attorney Bruce Griffen hints that they may appear at Fischer's sentencing on Aug. 4. "This would show that they have an intact, happy family and that, except for the absence of a legal ceremony, they are like any other couple," he says. He adds that no victim had come forward to complain - that it was "speculation" from two "disgruntled" excommunicated FLDS members and pressure from the state which resulted in Fischer's verdict...
...seems determined to get its plot told telegraphically, chiefly through a series of newspaper clippings. A 1945 story reports on the death of Laura Chase, 25, who somehow drove a car off a Toronto bridge. An item two years later reveals the discovery of the body of Richard E. Griffen, 47, a prominent Canadian industrialist found dead of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage in the cabin of his sailboat. Then comes a fast-forward to 1975 and a note on the death of Aimee Griffen, 38, of a broken neck after a suspected fall. At this point, Atwood's novel...
What links this string of fatalities? The answer, it turns out, is Iris Chase Griffen--Laura's elder sister, Richard's wife, Aimee's mother. Now in her 80s, Iris realizes that she is the only person left alive who knows the circumstances behind these deaths. Having been warned by her doctor that her heart is weak, the old woman begins, reluctantly, to write down what she remembers: "After all I've done to avoid it, Iris, her mark, however truncated: initials chalked on the sidewalk, or a pirate's X on the map, revealing the beach where the treasure...