Word: murdered
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...second Kennedy assassination--almost two months to the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.--immediately prompted, at home and abroad, deep doubts about the stability of America. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...
...differences. Says Philadelphia Surgeon Dr. Everett Koop, an antiabortion activist whom Reagan plans to nominate as Surgeon General: "Nothing like it has separated our society since the days of slavery." On one side are the crusaders "for life," who argue on religious and moral grounds that abortion is the murder of an unborn person (the fetus) and thus should be outlawed by constitutional amendment. On the other side are crusaders "for choice," who contend that abortion is a right that women must have if they are ever to be free to control their own bodies, indeed, their own lives...
When asked how they could have let the most famous double-murder suspect in history slip away under their noses, the angry police commander and the tight-faced lawyer and the whole choir of commentators all said the same thing: "We never thought he would...
...just wanted his mother. He wanted to go home. He found his blocker in his faithful friend and longtime teammate Al Cowlings, and together they slipped away from the lawyers and doctors and eluded the police who had come to take O.J. into custody on charges of first-degree murder...
Instead, Cochran spoke mostly about another client, Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who after a twenty-year legal battle was recently acquitted of a murder charge...