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...brought to the eastern half of the island* some cargo that a good many cultists might find to be of doubtful value: independence. As Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Britain's Prince Charles stood at attention with a crowd of 10,000 in a Port Moresby football stadium, the Australian flag was hauled down for the last time and replaced by the black, red and gold standard of the world's newest nation, Papua New Guinea. Said solemn Michael Somare, 39, a policeman's burly son who is the new Prime Minister: "This...
Bear Hug. So far, the separatists have waged only a war of words, and Prime Minister Somare does not seem to be worried by them. A bearded former journalist and teacher who orchestrated his Pangu (Papua and New Guinea Union) Party into leadership of the ruling coalition in the Port Moresby Parliament, Somare often journeys back to his tribal area on the north coast of New Guinea, where he likes to "suck a couple of stubbies [short beers]" with betel-chewing friends on the white beach. A powerful man, he once broke up a brawl in the legislature by bear...
...Port St. Joe, in the panhandle of Florida, is in one of those swampy, redneck, Southern counties where everything moves at a slow and measured pace-except the courts when they are dealing with black defendants. After Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee were charged with murder, it took just three weeks before they were found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair. Evidence suggesting that their "confessions" had been coerced slowed the process not a bit. Later investigations strongly suggested that the two men were innocent but by then the local law was back in its familiar subtropical torpor...
...began one hot July night in 1963. Two white attendants at the Mo-Jo gas station, just outside Port St. Joe, were robbed, taken into the woods, told to lie down and then shot dead. Police learned that earlier in the evening a group of black men and women had been arguing with the attendants about using a whites-only restroom. Pitts and Lee, who were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still...
...Pitts, 31, and Lee, 40, walked out of Raiford. The state gave them $100 each. Pitts said he harbored "bitterness" but not "hatred." Said Lee just before he got out: "I won't believe it until I'm 300 miles away from this place." Back at Port St. Joe, the present owner of the Mo-Jo said, "If they were innocent, they never would have been convicted...