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...discovered two teen-agers burglarizing her home. It was a fatal incident: the intruders abruptly shot the old woman to death with a gun they had found in the house, grabbed $415 in cash and made their getaway in the victim's 1972 Buick. Four days later Ronald Zamora, 15, confessed to police that he had killed Mrs. Haggart, who also happened to be his next-door neighbor. This week Zamora is facing a Miami jury-his accomplice will be tried separately -charged with first-degree murder, burglary, robbery and possession of a firearm while committing a felony...
...detention and, more important, prohibiting "illegal pressure on detainees," meaning torture. But in one two-week period since the decree, according to legal sources, about 30 people were seized by the police; 19 of them have not been seen since. Among the recent victims is a socialist named Sergio Zamora Torres. Seized and tortured for six hours, Zamora eventually managed to get the protection of Raúl Cardinal Silva Henriquez, head of Chile's increasingly oppositionist Roman Catholic Church. Zamora was examined by Silva's doctor and found to show burns on his arms, legs, genitals...
Even the Roman Catholic Church, long a bulwark of the government, has begun to show discontent. Only this month six priests who had been arrested for various political offenses finally agreed to end a 16-day hunger strike in the Zamora Prison after their bishops had intervened with Franco. Many younger priests and bishops are now more in sympathy with the workers than with the government. The censored press, which has generally downplayed the unrest, felt called upon to note the fact that the Guardia Civil had discovered eight dynamite cartridges and "a mass of subversive literature" at a convent...
...with amazing aplomb. Alva Dawson, 74, a retired deputy sheriff and the oldest member of the panel, rode an exercising bicycle in his spare time to keep fit and observed that he missed only one thing-the new piano he had been learning to play before the trial. William Zamora, 45, a state employee and sometime actor, plans to write a book called Sequestered, and his announced intention made the others leary of him. He became something of an outcast, spending much of his time in his room typing notes. Zamora claimed last week that his forthcoming book will include...
...Besides Zamora, the putative author, another member tried to capitalize on the trial's sensational appeal. At the close of deliberations, Sheely implored his fellow jurors to avoid reporters and hold out for a $200,000 magazine contract. Said Tubick: "Most of us were shocked. I didn't think it was right-I just walked out of the room...