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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who attended the peace vigil, agreed. "It was very moving, especially since it involved both SAS and Hillel," he said. "It is an outgrowth of this extraordinary reaction to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and is another example of the push for peace...
More than 100 people, including human rights activists and the daughter of the elected president of Nigeria, gathered at a candle-lit vigil last night for Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian environmentalist and activist executed last Friday...
McVeigh cannot watch TV, though it watches him. He is under camera surveillance 20 hours a day. He cannot even see anyone from his cell except the armed guard who sits right outside--one of three who keep a constant vigil. Would-be visitors are discouraged; even McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, has to go through three layers of security to see his client. McVeigh leaves his cell rarely, chained at the ankles and wrists and whisked away in a windowless, bulletproof van to the Oklahoma City federal courthouse. From its windows, grand jurors, and perhaps eventually trial jurors...
...Chechen terror team issued a chilling ultimatum to the Russians: either begin the immediate withdrawal of troops from Chechnya or face a bloodbath. As government forces kept a tense vigil outside the hospital, stories quickly spread that to discourage rescue attempts the terrorists had mined the building and splashed gasoline on the hostages-numbering by some estimates close to 2,000. Ratcheting up the war of nerves, Shamil Basayev, a top rebel commander and leader of the operation, told journalists at a hastily improvised press conference: "It does not matter to us when we die. If necessary, we will shoot...
...Grady's family kept an anxious vigil all week. "When you're not in control of a situation that involves a person you love with all your heart, you go crazy," said Stacey, who was born on Scott's third birthday in 1968. That was an audacious usurpation of the limelight for which her older brother, she says, never quite forgave her and that, until now, he has been unable to undo. "You grasp for hope and a prayer." Plus one other thing. During the final two nights of O'Grady's ordeal, Stacey slept with her brother...