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Back in the Jordanian city of Zarka, his father and brothers wept openly as they insisted Salameh was innocent. They spoke of the many letters they had received from Salameh praising the free and democratic society in which he now lived. They also received financial help. A local money changer says he cashed checks from America for sums that ran as high as four figures. "Mohammed wanted to go to the U.S.A. to make money and help me," says his father Amin Abdul-raheem Salameh, a retired Jordanian army officer. "He said, 'I am ready to work in America...
...punched in a sport that was almost the definition of a game for whites. More than seem reasonable for a man who suffered the first of several heart attacks at age 36, while at the peak of his considerable game. More than seemed attainable to stunned observers who wept with him in April of last year when he announced (under the pressure of a pending newspaper story) that he had AIDS -- probably the result of a blood transfusion after a second bypass operation...
...limit on justice. The Mississippi Supreme Court has cleared the way for a third trial of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, 72, in the assassination of Evers on June 12, 1963. Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 by all-white juries, which deadlocked. Beckwith's wife Thelma wept at the news of the new trial. So did Evers' widow Myrlie...
...medical background couldn't prepare Purvis for the human suffering and starvation he has witnessed in Somalia. "After my first visit, in August, I didn't feel like eating for days," he recalls. "I had never seen someone die before, and there I watched several die. One boy wept over his last brother's body right in the middle of a busy feeding center, and nobody stopped to notice." Well, almost nobody...
...commonly up to 80% black, many of them young -- tended to be highly vocal, shouting at the screen and applauding, especially during scenes of Malcolm's flamboyant hustler days and later during some of his militant speeches. But by the end there was usually a respectful silence. Many people wept...