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...state procedure that allows a husband killer who claims battered-woman syndrome to argue successfully for clemency before a special review panel. The Governor and the cabinet commuted her sentence to five years served and put her on 15-years probation. The release was a victory for activist Candice Slaughter, who had pressed for the reform...
Further inside, visitors encounter historical exhibits on such episodes as the Turkish slaughter of Armenians and the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia. Displays about the U.S. include a map locating active hate groups and a multiscreen show on the hardships of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights campaigns. A time line shows that the Iroquois were condemned to reservations two years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified...
...spent her adolescence in World War II Holland. She lost family to the Nazis, often went desperately hungry, and occasionally carried messages for the Resistance in her shoes. The war was a horror, but it left no discernible scars. Perhaps that was a little part of her magic: after slaughter and in the midst of chilling political uncertainty, the world found a grace in her that it yearned for. She seemed serene, but she was quick to laughter. She was ethereal -- she gave a credible performance as Rima, the bird creature in Green Mansions -- but she could be sensual...
Saddam is particularly interested in exploiting Arab perceptions that the West applies an anti-Muslim double standard. He massages Arab resentment that the same allied forces that retaliate so quickly against Iraq remain indifferent to the Serbian slaughter of Bosnia's Muslims and turn a blind eye to Israel's expulsion of more than 400 Palestinians. Said the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet: "How could the U.S. start this operation against the background of public opinion horrified by events in Bosnia? With 10,000 women raped and people jammed into internment camps in Bosnia, this bombing is inexplicable...
...first time attended a major meeting of the P.L.O. hierarchy in Tunis last Wednesday, while supporters of the two groups in the territories issued an unprecedented joint call for cooperation. Conditions for the deportees continued to deteriorate. The men threatened to swarm across Israeli lines, raising fears of potential slaughter...