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...several of the murder cases. Lucas, for example, was charged with a string of six killings and an attempted abduction between Oct. 2 and Nov. 2, 1978. To have committed those crimes, Lucas would have had to travel 1 1,000 miles in his 13-year-old Ford station wagon; in the last four days alone he would have covered 4,100 miles, which averages out to more than 40 m.p.h., 24 hours a day. The reporters say a task force headed by Texas Rangers was so eager to close unsolved cases that it failed to double-check Lucas' stories...
...Murabitun radio station and party headquarters also took a pounding: floors collapsed, pillars buckled, and steel reinforcing rods bent into bizarre shapes. Later, Amal militiamen could be seen standing guard outside the gutted building. Emblazoned on a concrete slab at the entrance was a Murabitun slogan: WHAT IS TAKEN BY FORCE IS REGAINED ONLY BY FORCE...
...grenades and mortars. Several shells crashed into an Islamic orphanage housing hundreds of children. Some were handicapped, and many had lost both parents in previous waves of communal violence. "The children were terrified," an official said later. "They ran about crying and screaming." At one point the Sunni radio station, Voice of Arab Lebanon, broadcast an appeal to the combatants to stop fighting around the orphanage. Like other appeals for ceasefires that night, it went unheeded...
While Turner backed away last week from any formal ties with the group, he pledged "to improve the quality, objectivity and diversity of CBS programming." In the past, Turner has criticized network fare in general for its "sleaze, stupidity and violence." His flagship station, WTBS, currently offers sports broadcasts and family-oriented material, including reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies, a show that CBS dropped...
...burning down the homecoming display, and finally left the school after being suspended twice. He entered the family billboard business at 24, after his father committed suicide. Turner was so successful in his advertising venture that he was able to acquire and enlarge a foundering local UHF television station. In 1976 he started bouncing its signals off a satellite to cable-TV systems across the U.S. The result: Super-Station WTBS, which now reaches some 34 million viewers and last year earned profits of $65.8 million on sales of $177.4 million. The Atlanta dynamo also owns the local Braves baseball...