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...simpler terms of death, injury and destruction. More than 1,000 corpses were uncovered last week, and several hundred more may be found before the gruesome search is completed. Necmettin Esenter, a municipal clerk who lost eight members of his family, held out his bloody hands and wept: "I dug out my two-year-old daughter Vedia from under a rock with these hands...
...jury decided that none of the defendants could be held responsible. As the verdict was announced, one woman juror wept; she and two other women said "no" when polled on whether they agreed with the decision. Judge Don Young told the jury: "You are owed the gratitude of everyone in the courtroom, regardless of whether they benefited by your decision, and of everyone in this free land." Shouted Thomas Grace, a wounded student: "What freedom? This trial has been a sham in every way." Arthur Krause, whose daughter Allison died at Kent State, delivered a similar verdict: "Thanks to these...
Weeping Jurors. Joan Little's version of what happened was far different and so affecting that two of the black women jurors wept. According to her story, Alligood came to her cell in search of sex three times between 10 p.m. on Aug. 26 and 3 a.m. on Aug. 27. Rebuffed the first time, he returned with a present of cigarettes and sandwiches. He left, but soon came back. "By then," she testified, "I had changed into my nightgown. He was telling me I really looked nice in my gown, and he wanted to have sex with me." Alligood...
...city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...
...were issued mattresses, bedclothes and kits containing toilet articles, sandals and one candy bar each. Inside the tents and Quonset huts hastily erected for the emergency, the refugees finally gave way to emotions stored up over weeks of anxiety. In their first communal act in America, they embraced and wept...