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...Sept. 2, 1983, Jimmy Lee Gray, sentenced to die for the rape-slaying of a three-year-old girl, entered the gas chamber in Parchman, Mississippi. But eight minutes after his execution began, witnesses cleared the viewing area, repelled by what they were seeing. Gray, suffocating and purple-faced, died slamming his head against a steel pole. Gas-chamber executions are supposed to end with a quick loss of consciousness...
People have good reason to worry. U.S. layoffs rose to more than 228,000 in the first four months of 1994, according to the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, up 13% from last year's pace. General Motors alone eliminated 17,000 jobs in the first quarter even though it plans to boost output 5.4% this year. (Such labor cutbacks have not stopped GM, Ford and Chrysler from raising prices on popular models like the Chevrolet pickup and the Jeep Grand Cherokee.) Overall, the hourly output of Detroit's workers has been increasing at an annual rate...
...retort just when he had adopted stern new measures himself. He had persuaded the United Nations to harden sanctions against Haiti's outlaw regime. He had announced a new asylum policy that would end the unpopular practice of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees without a hearing. He had appointed William Gray III, head of the United Negro College Fund, as Washington's new Haiti czar. Now he dangled threats of a military invasion of the island nation...
...press in general is a kind of contempt for the facts," she says. "To propagate the myth of the diva is so simplistic. It's a very simplistic way to look at people. The power of the printed word is black and white, but people are many shades of gray. They can't quite understand how I could be a so-called powerful woman and yet be frightened, let's say. It's like they don't go together. It's too complex...
...Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Mary McC. Fernandez, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon...