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...centenary of another ''great conspiracy.'' In 1893 the Governor of Illinois pardoned the surviving defendants of the Haymarket bombing case, which came out of the 1886 riots between police and labor protesters in Chicago. He condemned the case as a fraud and the resulting executions of defendants as judicial murder. Following the pardon, a monument was dedicated to those who had been found guilty with the words of a hanged defendant on the pedestal: ''The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.'' Let's hope, in your continuing coverage...
...sorry to see your article on religious fanaticism limited to Islam. Even here in the U.S., Fundamentalist religious zealots are utilizing tactics of terror, intimidation and murder to press their agenda of stopping abortions. When religious fervor crosses over to acts of terrorism it becomes a social plague for all our society that must be carefully controlled. William B. Nash Burlington, Vermont...
CHART: NOT AVAILABLE CREDIT: Source: FBI's Crime in the United States CAPTION: BLOOD RELATIONS: MURDER IN THE FAMILY
SENTENCED. LARRY NEVERS, 53, and WALTER BUDZYN, 47, white former police officers; for their second-degree murder convictions in the beating death of black motorist Malice Green; in Detroit. Green died of injuries from hammer- like blows delivered by heavy metal flashlights. The two officers apologized to Green's family before Judge George Crockett handed down their punishments -- 12 to 25 years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they...
...point: Legal Eagles. It ought to work. Robert Redford can give good suave; Debra Winger could be Audrey Hepburn (or Kate) brought down to earth. The plot ransacks honorable sources: bantering, romancing lawyers from Adam's Rib, silky threats at an art auction from North by Northwest, the murderer and his motive from Charade. The movie's Manhattan locations exploit some of the most glamorous spots in Greenwich Village and Tribeca. Wallpapering the film is the work of 37 modern artists, which was flown at great expense from New York City to Universal's California studios. A budget...