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...defining who was to blame for what Goode called "one of the most devastating days in the history of our city." Goode continued to insist that he was misled by subordinates who provided him with imprecise information. Contradictory statements by the mayor, Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor, Fire Commissioner William Richmond and City Managing Director Leo Brooks, who has since resigned, were not resolved. At issue was whether the mayor knew that police intended to use explosives on Move's fortified compound as part of their original assault plan, and whether he also knew that a police helicopter would be used...
DIED. James Briley, 28, murderer convicted of killing a pregnant Virginia woman as well as her five-year-old son and implicated in other 1979 gang killings; by electrocution; in Richmond. The same electric chair six months earlier had claimed Briley's older brother Linwood, also convicted of multiple murders, with whom he and four other men escaped for 19 days in the greatest death-row breakout in history; a third brother is serving a life sentence for murder. Club-wielding fellow prisoners attempted to stop James' execution in a 30-minute uprising that left nine guards and one inmate...
...Chew) lives in the Richmond section of San Francisco, but she left her heart in China. Proudly unassimilated, Mom replies to her English-speaking children in impeccable Cantonese. Nor will she surrender to Occidental displays of emotion. To give thanks or praise or a show of love to her No. 1 daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew) would be to compromise her matriarchal authority. She will only goad Geraldine to marry that nice Chinese-American doctor from Los Angeles. Then an old woman can follow a fortune teller's prophecy and turn to the business of dying...
...Richmond Hill, every utterance from Kingston seemed to inspire a new concern. Things didn't get any easier at his other town halls. Even among the elderly, who made up about two-thirds of the crowd at each meeting, people didn't know much about the program. At each meeting, residents asked Kingston why illegal immigrants get Social Security benefits (they don't), if members of Congress pay into Social Security (they do) and why the U.S. didn't employ the money it uses for foreign aid to pay for Social Security (the costs of Social Security completely dwarf...
...event in Richmond Hill, Kingston praised a father and daughter who had come to the event together, but in a way that suggested Bush's plan may be nearing its death. "One of the great things about this debate," Kingston said, "even if this debate doesn't do anything else, but you go out and save your money, that might be the best thing that could be done...