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Even in Western capitals, the usual jitters were tempered by widespread relief that Sharif was gone. Although U.S. Ambassador William Milam met with Musharraf to inform him of Washington's "profound regret about the military takeover," the U.S. was not all that upset by last week's events. The Asian subcontinent has been a source of heightened anxiety for the U.S. since the spring of 1998, when India tested nuclear devices and Pakistan responded with its own nuclear tests. The two countries' dispute over the territory of Kashmir brought them to the brink of all-out war this year...
...year-old allegedly flirted with a white woman. He may simply have returned her gaze as she stared at a stranger's face, and not looked away as black men were supposed to do. Carolyn Bryant told her husband Roy about it. And Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam seized Emmett from the home of his great-uncle in the middle of the night, drove off and proceeded to bludgeon and, finally, shoot him. Then they threw him into the river...
What happened next was revolutionary, even though the verdict was not surprising for the apartheid South. Emmett's great-uncle Mose Wright testified against Bryant and Milam, a black man pointing out white men as the murderers of a black child. After his testimony, Wright fled Mississippi for his life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin...
...dead man's sisters has spoken of reconciliation. And there is cause for relief that a jury of 11 whites and one black in a small Southern town could come to the same moral conclusion, the same definition of justice. In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were declared not guilty by an all-white jury in less time than it takes to watch a movie. A month later, at the behest of a journalist who paid for the story, Milam felt enough public approbation to confess to the murder with impunity...
...often as once a month in the old Hotel Majestic, now an international conference center, on Paris' fashionable Avenue Kleber. Sessions deal with two or three countries at a time. The U.S. position on issues is prepared by the Treasury Department, although Washington's chief delegate is William Milam, 50, an easygoing Deputy Assistant Secretary of , State for International and Finance Development. Discussions often run from 9 a.m. to well past midnight, with only half-hour breaks for lunch and dinner in the building's downstairs cafeteria...