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...grand jury accused the Guardsmen of violating the civil rights of the demonstrators by assaulting and intimidating them. Five defendants-Lawrence A. Shafer, 28, and James D. McGee, 27, both of Ravenna, Ohio; William E. Perkins, 28, of Canton, Ohio; James E. Pierce, 29, of Amelia Island, Fla.; and Ralph W. Zoller, 27, of Mantua, Ohio -were charged with felonies for the four deaths. If convicted, all could be sentenced from one year to life in prison. The other three defendants-Barry W. Morris, 29, of Kent; Mathew J. McManus, 28, of West Salem, Ohio; and Leon H. Smith...
...military commanders. The council's real functions will be carried on within the office of the Minister of Defense, whose appointment and that of the Minister of the Interior must be approved by the military. Thus last week President Bordaberry appointed army-picked candidates for those jobs-Walter Ravenna as Defense Minister and Colonel Nestor Bolentini as Minister of the Interior...
...solemn morning in Ravenna, Ohio, last week, a small group of onlookers and newsmen gathered behind the Portage County courthouse to watch Mrs. Lucy DeLeone, clerk of the courts, put the match to one of the most controversial documents in recent U.S. history. She burned an 18-page document released by a special Ohio grand jury last year that absolved the National Guard of any responsibility in the slaying of four Kent State students. The grand jury indicted 24 youths and one professor on state riot charges...
...with New York's Metropolitan Opera for the past half-century; of a heart attack suffered while conducting Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice; in Athens. Cleva's career got off to an auspicious start when the maestro who was scheduled to lead a 1920 performance in Ravenna, Italy, of Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West suddenly quit; the opera manager asked where he could find a substitute at the last minute. "Here's your man," said Puccini, pointing to 18-year-old Cleva, who had been conducting during rehearsals. Cleva eventually became...
...special jury, sitting in Ravenna, six miles from the campus, heard more than 300 witnesses, and had available to it both the Scranton and FBI reports. The grand jurors saw what happened this...