Word: sten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Arta's funeral last week, cops arrested Christiansen under a state law that makes it a felony to abet a suicide. But a California court had declared such a law unconstitutional. There is no California law against suicide itself. Asked Deputy District Attorney Ted C. Sten: "How can a person be guilty of a felony as the result of aiding and abetting a deed which is not contrary...
...Sten's order, the police let Christiansen go, a free...
...fastness of the Aberdare Mountains, a Mau Mau leader named Simba ("The Lion") wrote last week to a white settler: "I have just returned from a course for brigadiers in Abyssinia, and have under my command one division of 12,000 men, 400 machine guns, 300 Bren guns, 100 Sten guns, 10,000 rifles and 40 mortars . . . I could wipe out 50 battalions . . ." Next day, with a band of hand-picked warriors, he struck hard at the settler's estate...
Howle Lewis came from St. George's crew to row five and Sten Lium from Exeter to four. Padro Galban, at three, holds his first oar. Cary Fox, two man, rowed for St. Pauls, and Dick Weather-head, bow man, never rowed before. Dick Shader coxes...
...were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None of the four was armed. Kikuyu (including at least one woman) have also been shot dead "while trying to wrest a Sten gun from a guard"-although the settlers all swear the Kikuyu are a cowardly, not a desperately suicidal, people. Stray Kikuyu picked up by the commandos in the forests (called jungilis), who may or may not be working with Mau Mau gangs, are asked for information. They are seldom prepared...