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...Marguerite Michaels: The verdict was announced at about 6.30, and the reaction was pretty subdued. There weren?t that many people gathered to hear the verdict, maybe 20 or 30. Those that were there kept pretty calm...
...TIME.com: What was the reaction on the streets when the grand jury verdict was read Monday night...
News of the verdict swept through the city. Dale Short, a free-lance writer who has been covering the trial, had left and stopped by a liquor store. "They had the TV on and it came on and the people started calling out in jubilation," he said. "'He's been charged,' one of them said. And I said, 'You mean convicted?' And they said yeah, convicted...
...mast," which is what the panel is recommending, is known as a non-judicial proceeding, or NJP. An admiral's mast is handled without prosecutors and can be done privately; it would render an administrative, non-judicial punishment. In a court-martial, a jury deliberates and delivers a verdict. An NJP is more a tug-of-war; Waddel and Fargo are likely to meet privately and Fargo will detail his concerns - and mete out the punishment...
Quarrels with the Chinese will go on. For the moment, the verdict on George W. Bush's performance in this first international test has been, on the whole, favorable. It even seemed right, an interesting self-effacement, that he did not show up to welcome the crew back to America. Neither Ronald Reagan nor Bill Clinton would have passed up such a theatrical opportunity...