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...Police and local civil guardsmen to bury the bodies of four American women. Informed of this through the office of San Salvador's acting Archbishop Rivera y Damas, Ambassador White drove to the village about 30 miles east of the capital. There the bodies of the victims were found in an unmarked grave...
Judge Pittman rejected that argument and found both Tekere and his triggerman guilty of murder, an offense punishable by hanging. But the judge was outvoted by his two nonwhite assessors -lower court magistrates who fulfill the jury's role of deciding on questions of fact under the judicial system inherited from Rhodesia. The split decision led to acquittal. Tekere, whose prestige among militant nationalists will now surely be enhanced, emerged brash and unrepentant from the trial. He pronounced himself "thoroughly disgusted" by what he considered Pittman's racial bias and called for an "overhauling" of the judiciary. Shrugging...
...skyrocketing energy prices. After consulting a geologist, they decided to dig their own natural gas well. While the community prayed for divine assistance, the two-man J & L Well Service Co. began drilling for gas on the nuns' 100-acre property. Within four days, natural gas was found; today this private energy source heats the two-story convent that houses 140 Benedictine nuns and a chapel that seats 300 people. The sisters' $105,000 investment-which came from selling stock they owned-has so far saved them $7,000 in heating costs, and geologists are busy surveying...
...ruling grew out of a series of at least eight upstate New York fires set by an arson ring between 1970 and 1973. One of the men found guilty was Eugene DiFrancesco, who was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a separate trial for his part in the 1970 bombing of a federal building in Rochester. Under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the prosecutor in the racketeering case had asked the judge to find that DiFrancesco was a "dangerous special offender" and therefore subject to additional punishment beyond the 20-year maximum. The judge consented...
Leading the dissenters, Justice William Brennan found an "analytic similarity" between the reaching of a verdict and the determination of a sentence. "Imposition of a ten-year sentence where a 25-year sentence is permissible under the statute," he argued, "constitutes a finding that the facts justify only a ten-year sentence." Brennan warned that the logical extension of the court's reasoning might allow Congress to grant prosecutors the power to appeal acquittals...