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...Word." The mystical meanings that the Bible lays upon the word Word are not embraced by everyone. Yet nobody can reasonably doubt that the coming of the word, if not the Word, to humankind was the start of something big in history. Human talk may have struck dyspeptic Nathaniel Hawthorne like "the croak and cackle of fowls," but the rise of language, written and spoken, is all but universally rated as one of the glories of the species. What is surprising is that in the common give and take of daily living people still rely so little upon the verbal...
...fibers, three or four dog hairs and one loud splash. Slim shreds of evidence, but last week they were enough to convince a Georgia magistrate that Wayne Bertram Williams, 23, should face a grand jury for possible indictment in the murder of Nathaniel Cater, 27, the most recent of the 28 young blacks found slain in Atlanta. Williams showed no emotion as Magistrate Albert Thompson read the decision upholding the arrest. Only later, as he was transferred back to his 6-ft. by 12-ft. isolation cell in Fulton County Jail, did the suspect comment: "This is ridiculous...
Williams' increasingly erratic behavior may have sparked the decision to make an arrest. The night before he was brought in, the suspect had led a police surveillance team on a chase through the city, driving past the homes of Mayor Maynard Jackson, Nathaniel Cater's father and finally Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, where he paused to honk his horn and shout. In addition, the possibility that Williams might attempt to flee was raised by reports that his father had requested information about a charter pilot at a local airport...
...officials insist they had no legal right to bring Williams to their headquarters on the basis of a splash. Only when the body of Nathaniel Cater, 27, the 28th and most recent victim, was found in the Chattahoochee two days later were the agents justified in taking action. The one "vulnerability" in the handling of the case, said an FBI official, was the "looseness of surveillance" shortly after the May 22 incident. According to neighbors, Williams removed several boxes from his home the following day. The boxes "could be irrelevant." said the official, "but they also could be the very...
Reported by David Aikman/Sharm el Sheikh and Nathaniel Harrison/Cairo