Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 was followed by what many people considered almost an equal outrage. A special grand jury exonerated the National Guard of any blame for the deaths while it returned indictments against 25 students and others for participating in the campus disorders. But later a U.S. district court judge ordered the grand jury's report destroyed, and last week 20 indictments still pending were dismissed for lack of evidence...
Once he did so, Ohio Attorney General William Brown, 31, asked the court to drop charges against the remaining 20 defendants, among them Craig Morgan, who was president of the Kent State student body at the time of the shootings. Brown emphasized that his decision was not intended to "vindicate or criticize the special grand jury, the students, the National Guard or the administration of the university." Though Kent State President Glenn A. Olds applauded Brown's "sensitivity to the interest of justice," many students were not appeased. Said Donna Clark, vice president of the student government: "Four persons...
...justice that the students will probably have to settle for. The only other litigation still pending consists of some civil damage suits against state officials and National Guard officers brought by parents of the students who were killed. Kent State, the bitter climax to campus rebellion, is about to pass into history...
...today-to the New York Review of Books; he will join the Review in January as contributing editor. He plans to write "more articles in depth" like his five part series on "The American Military Establishment" and excerpts from his book The Killings at Kent State-How Murder Went Unpunished, both of which were first published in the Review...
...steel that many Americans grew up with is not what he used to be. For one thing, his alter ego, Clark Kent, has given up the Daily Planet to become a newscaster for the Galaxy Broadcasting System, getting in and out of blue tights and red cape during commercial breaks. ("Personally, I still prefer Walter Cronkite," a mini-skirted Lois tells him. She, at least, is unchanged-as obnoxious as ever.) For another, Superman has succumbed to urban jitters; he obviously needs to spend some time on the couch. Just listen to some of his recent complaints...