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...modest. The hurrahs were subdued last week after the eldest son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru-won a landslide by-election victory and captured the parliamentary seat vacated as a result of Sanjay's death last June. Wearing the white homespun kurta-pajama favored by Indian politicians, Rajiv met simply with a few friends and reporters at his mother's house, where he lives...
Then the jurors retired to a deliberation room dominated by wooden tables, where they joined in macabre re-enactments of the crime. "We used two tables to simulate the bed," recalls Marian West, an administrative assistant for a community service program. Von Glahn, donning the bloodstained pajama top, played the doctor, as other jurors came at him with the actual gun. "We did it many, many times," said one. "It was Jean Harris' testimony that convicted her," said Marie Jackson, a clerical worker. "We tried it like it was told. We couldn't see how he could have...
...former Green Beret physician told the jury that four drug-crazed intruders had slain his pregnant wife and two daughters in their Fort Bragg, N.C., duplex. But the combination of a blood-soaked pajama top and his vengeful fathher-in-law cast doubt on that story, and last year Jeffrey R. MacDonald, 36, began serving three life terms in a California prison. Now, as a result of a 2-to-l decision last week by a U.S. appeals court in Richmond, MacDonald may become a free man once again. The reason: investigative delays violated his constitutional right to a speedy...
...Cabinet posts and was rebuilding the party. In the January elections that returned his mother to power, Sanjay not only won a seat for himself but hand-picked at least 100 winners in other constituencies. Wholly loyal, these young politicians even imitated Sanjay's customary dress: a pajama suit and kashmir shawl. More recently, Sanjay had run the campaign of his mother's party in state elections, where it won majorities in eight legislative assemblies and lost only in Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras...
...hospital, the spacious lobby quickly filled with reporters, politicians, black leaders and pajama-clad patients, several of them in wheelchairs. Jesse Jackson suggested, despite a total lack of evidence, that Jordan might have been the first on an assassin's "hit list" of black leaders. Jackson maintained that Jordan's wound was "seemingly well placed by a professional, which is a political statement." He called on the nation's blacks to stay calm. Said Jackson: "We don't want another 1968 [when riots followed King's murder]. We need leadership. We must respond to this...