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...commission, charged with investigating race relations in Cambridge, was created by Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 after the Rodney King verdict last spring...
...Klaber, suspicions about the Sirhan verdict are based on fact, not fancy, and others who have followed the case and its aftermath concur. Retired L.A.P.D. sergeant Paul Schraga, the first cop on the scene after the shooting, is convinced that right-wing zealots in his department's elite intelligence unit were involved in the assassination. "Conspiracy?" he says. "You bet your bottom dollar there was a conspiracy." Several celebrities, including Norman Mailer and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., have petitioned a Los Angeles County grand jury to review the L.A.P.D.'s investigation of the younger Kennedy's killing. Alas, considering...
...Louisiana man was acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Japanese exchange student who came to his front door by mistake. Rodney Peairs said he mistook Yoshihiro Hattori for a burglar when the youth ran toward him. The verdict provoked an outcry in Japan...
...trial judge concluded that Shaw was mentally functional and refused to instruct the jury that they could take mental retardation into account when deciding their verdict. The jury found him guilty. The defense then asked that the court not "sully" its hands with a death sentence for this "flotsam on the sea of life." The judge sentenced Bobby Shaw to death...
...aide, "the ball game for us is the economy, period. Unless we get the deficit down and health reform on track, we'll be out of here in '96, which is not our intention. There's one more election, and we mean to win it." A harsh but realistic verdict -- and one that will hold unless Clinton changes his mind again, a course of conduct with which this particular President is not exactly unfamiliar...