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Having defied Britain and shown its independence by executing five blacks in spite of a royal reprieve, the breakaway government of Prime Minister Ian Smith decided last week that a little mercy was in order. It commuted the death sentences of 44 blacks awaiting execution, including four who were within 40 minutes of hanging, to varying terms of imprisonment. Still awaiting word about their fate are 69 others held in the death row of Salisbury's maximum-security prison. Their number swelled at week's end with the sentencing to death of five Africans convicted of entering Rhodesia...
...world did not look on with such equanimity. The executions were not only Rhodesia's first since its breakaway from Britain 28 months ago, but were made in open defiance of British authority and in disregard of a royal reprieve for the three men. No doubt existed about the guilt of the men, two of whom, James Dhlamini and Victor Mlambo, had murdered a white farmer in a Mau Mau-style ambush and the third of whom, Duly Shadrack, had axed a native chief to death in the bush. But by blatantly ignoring the mercy move of Queen Elizabeth...
Harvard added two more goals in the second period, one on a pinpoint wrist shot by Chris Gurry at 0:46 and one on Mark's beautiful breakaway...
Sophomore stickhandler Ron Mark carried the Crimson momentum into the third period with a solo breakaway at 3:14. Mark stole the puck from Eagle defenseman Steve Cedorchuk at his own blue line and came in all alone on goalie Jeff Cohen...
...gious denomination. The First Amendment's church-state clause, argued Judge Richard T. Rives, means that neither a state nor the Federal Government "can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organization." The decision, which also reaffirmed denominational title to the property of three other breakaway Methodist churches in Alabama, automatically knocked out a similar law in Mississippi-and Southern Presbyterians are hoping that it will apply to Georgia as well...