Word: repeats
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After last year's acquittal in state court of the four policemen who beat Rodney King, A.C.L.U. president Nadine Strossen joined calls for a second prosecution under federal law. That represented a break with an A.C.L.U. position adopted in 1990 that repeat prosecution by different jurisdictions for the same act amounted to double jeopardy, which is unconstitutional. Last summer the national board suspended that position and considered supporting the second trial of the policemen. Then, at an argumentative meeting this month, the board voted 37-29 to reinstate the 1990 policy. All eight African- American board members at the meeting...
Yells of joy -- and relief -- rang through the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in south Los Angeles, which had become a kind of command post for efforts to head off a repeat of last year's bloody riots. Dozens of volunteers, gathered at the church to pray before walking neighborhood streets to try to keep order, joined hands nervously as the verdicts approached. At the word "guilty," all leaped to their feet, literally jumping for joy. Some hugged and kissed, others exchanged jubilant high-fives. Outside the courthouse, Rose Brown, a self-described community activist, cried, "Finally...
...that it could participate in any peacekeeping operations it might vote on. Japan did send 600 troops to Cambodia to repair roads and bridges under a U.N. peace mandate, but only after a bruising political fight that the Miyazawa government has neither the will nor the strength to repeat...
...Have the Blue Jays lost too much starting pitching to repeat as World Champions? (Yes, the Baltimore Orioles will edge them out in the American League East...
Regardless of the verdict of the second Rodney King case, a repeat of last year's Los Angeles riots will not occur, a key speaker for L.A. 's Korean community told an audience of about 50 yesterday at the Law School...