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...Americans. Everyone involved in this fiasco did his best to confuse the real issue of domestic violence, the reason Simpson was brought to court the first time. It is obvious that our society still considers domestic violence a private matter rather than an important human-rights issue. KATE SULLIVAN, Plainfield, Vermont...
RELEASED. MIKE TYSON, 28, once and possibly future world heavyweight champion; from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the rape of a beauty pageant contestant; in Plainfield, Indiana. Tyson leaves prison trimmed down to his fighting weight...
Some 10 hours later and 200 miles south of Chicago, at least 300 journalists tried to stay warm under a crescent moon as they waited outside the Indiana Youth Center in Plainfield. They came from as far away as Brazil and Germany to watch prisoner No. 922335 emerge after three years of incarceration for rape. The prisoner was Mike Tyson, once the No. 1 heavyweight in the world and a fighter some thought could be the best there ever was. Although everyone there knew he would get out at around 6 a.m., they were eager for a sign that Tyson...
...said, "It helped me realize what was important to me. It was like going to my guru." The reference, of course, was to the Gatorade ad in which a guru advises him, "Life is a sport. Drink it up." At $1 for a 12-oz. bottle in Plainfield, Indiana...
...Plainfield, N.J., 50 people demonstrated outside police headquarters, charging that a policeman beat Uriah Hannah, a 14-year-old black. Last Sunday Hannah and his friends were playing with a remote-controlled toy car on a sidewalk near his home. A motorist stopped short at the spot where the boys were playing, and a police cruiser ran into the rear of his car. Hannah's parents, whose older son allegedly committed suicide in police custody last year, charged that the officer jumped from his car, accused the teenager of obstructing traffic and at one point tried to choke...