Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waiting For a Verdict...
...into box scores, may mean more to a President than even the number of dollars he can spend. A President must hold out hope, must exude an optimism even in impossible circumstances. History is a marvelous collection of stories about men and women who refused to accept the common verdict that certain achievements were impossible. Franklin Roosevelt offered hope more than anything else in the upheaval he brought to our system...
...members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party. The charges: killing five members, four white and one black, of the Communist Workers Party at a C.W.P.-sponsored "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in November 1979. The outcome drew predictably inflammatory responses from both extremist camps. Calling the verdict "a great victory for white America," North Carolina Nazi Leader Harold Covington maintained that it proved "we can beat the system on their own ground." Signe Waller, a C.W.P. member and the widow of one of the victims, charged that the trial was part of a government cover...
...verdict is expected at the end of this week in the trial of Representatives John M. Murphy of New York and Frank Thompson of New Jersey; Murphy and Thompson are accused of sharing two $50,000 payoffs with various coconspirators. Still to come: the trials of Congressmen Raymond Lederer of Philadelphia, accused of accepting $50,000; Florida's Richard Kelly, indicted for receiving $25,000; and New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams, accused of taking mining stock as a bribe...
Calling the verdict "horrifying," Hillel Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold said yesterday "that Klansmen are allowed to exist is bad enough. That they are allowed to kill is simply unbelievable...