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...tiny fraction of the 168,000-plus soldiers discharged after serving there, experts are surprised to see them show up in shelters so soon. "A lot of Vietnam vets didn't start to experience problems until eight, 10, 12 years later," says Ed Lowry, executive director of the Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service and Education Center. The VA says it is better prepared than it was 30 years ago to catch people before they fall through the cracks. Brown, for instance, never slept on the streets, and U.S. VETS is helping him with job interviews. But with so many deployed...
...Coalition. While Mfume made headlines for grading Hollywood on minority representation and denouncing ebonics ("black English"), detractors say he did little to draw attention to the health, education and criminal-justice issues that still cripple many in the black community. Laments Jerome Whyatt Mondesire, president of the group's Philadelphia chapter: "We've moved away from the grass-root courtroom battles that made us relevant to the plight of lower-income blacks...
...when Killen, now 79, shuffled back into a courtroom in Philadelphia last week, having finally been arrested for the murders, it was as if a cloud had lifted. Handcuffed and wearing an orange prison jump suit, he pleaded not guilty as his younger brother Jerry knocked down a television cameraman outside the courthouse...
...slayings were especially sinister. On Sunday, June 21, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were headed to Meridian, Miss., in their station wagon. Outside Philadelphia, they were stopped by deputy sheriff Cecil Price, a Klansman, who put them in jail. According to testimony in the 1967 trial, Price plotted with Killen to release the three men that night, then have them tailed by Price, Killen and other Klansmen. The conspirators abducted the civil rights workers, whom Killen had allegedly ordered two Klansmen to shoot. The three bodies were buried on a nearby farm, where they were found a month and a half...
...Jersey, "but they need to get 'em all." Said Billy Wayne Posey, one of those convicted in the 1967 federal trial: "This is like a nightmare." It's also a day of reckoning that mothers like Goodman and Chaney feel is long overdue. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/ Philadelphia and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York