Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...either by Israeli military commanders or by Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer who has controlled an area of southern Lebanon since 1979 with Israeli backing. Last week the Israelis transported Haddad and many of his 1,000 or so militiamen, together with their old Sherman tanks and aging American-made armored personnel carriers, in flatbed trucks all the way to the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, some 20 miles north of the area Haddad normally controls. Boldly announcing that his "Free Lebanon" had been expanded to cover the boundaries of the 28-mile zone demanded...
...Angeles is dark. The backdrop of khaki-drab Korean hills and everything that might serve as inventory, booty or memento have disappeared. Gone are the tables, tubing, clamps and surgical gowns from O.R.; neither the blandly frazzled Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) nor the avuncular Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) will preside any more over that surgeons' battlefield. In the mess hall, the serving trays and cigarette packs are missing; Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), the drag queen of 4077, will never again ask Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) to give absolution to the food. The officers' club...
...best.' Suddenly, we're not No. 1 any more. Now Aspen has a reputation as a rip-off community." The town's troubles are not likely to lead to a bust similar to the one Aspen experienced after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver-Purchase Act in 1893. But the Silver Queen is, as Cab Driver Dave Knowles puts it, "getting a good dose of reality...
...Professor Ed Sherman. But prosecutors want to win, and they "perceive that a Texas jury is more likely to give the death penalty to a black who killed a white." A similar South Carolina study found an almost identical pattern: local prosecutors over four years sought death sentences in 38% of homicides involving a white victim and black killer, but only 13% when a white had killed a black...
Wilkerson's first trial ended in a hung jury, but the second resulted in his conviction. [For reasons of strategy, prosecutors limited charges to the murder of the doctor.] Says Sherman Ross, now a judge, who represented Wilkerson both times: "The district attorney's office good-old-boyed him into a death penalty." For his part, Wilkerson tries to make the best of life on death row: "It takes a great deal of personal effort to not become hard within yourself and hate the free world...