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The worst violence apparently took place near the town of Nellie, in a rice-growing area 34 miles northeast of Gauhati. There, Lalung tribesmen wielding machetes, bamboo spears and poisoned arrows massacred more than 1,000 Muslim Bengalis. The warriors swarmed through 17 villages along a stretch of the Brahmaputra...
WICHITA. Four years ago, this community's fortunes were so high that its main problem was finding enough workers to accept its jobs. A bustling producer of meat, wheat, planes, oil and gas, Wichita (pop. 279,000) had the remarkably low unemployment rate of 2.8%. With rows of aerospace...
The long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and...
What was once perhaps the most potent argument against capital punishment arises less often these days. Yet there is a good chance that an innocent man was hanged in England in the 1950s. And in the U.S. today, as death rows swell and the pace of executions quickens, the risks...
Her acceptance of punishment does not exactly constitute an admission of guilt. Although she was convicted last year of stabbing a 71-year-old woman motel keeper to death with a screwdriver during a holdup, Foster now says, "I couldn't have done it. And if I did, I...