Word: jackson
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Byron de la Beckwith was a happy man in 1964 when two different all-white juries deadlocked on whether he was guilty of shooting black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Miss. But Beckwith's tribulations are far from over: last week the avowed white supremacist and former fertilizer salesman, now 70, was arrested in Tennessee and charged once again with the 1963 killing...
...case was revived after more than a quarter-century by Jackson's daily Clarion-Ledger, which last year ran a series of investigative stories on Beckwith's earlier trials. That prompted Hinds County district attorney Ed Peters and assistant D.A. Bobby DeLaughter to re-examine the 1964 proceedings. From then on, as DeLaughter puts it, evidence began "falling into our laps...
Amid all the grousing, hope was rising that a new, historic era of trade had begun -- with vast opportunities for U.S. exporters. To open that door, however, Bush had to waive the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which prohibited normal trade relations until Moscow allowed free emigration for its citizens. The Soviet parliament still has not passed a free-emigration law. But in the past year alone, authorities have permitted the departure of more than 150,000 citizens, mostly Jews headed for Israel, and it is likely that a satisfactory emigration law will be enacted next year. Once the law passes...
...dramatic mood swings. Little things crushed us. When we heard about Jesse Jackson's taking out a number of people, all of us were filled with hate and anger. Who picked the lucky ones? we asked ourselves. Why them and not others? News that George Bush would not permit the presence of hostages to influence his foreign policy saddened us. I was a combat veteran who had served in Vietnam. I wanted to count for something. Even the news that the President would spend Thanksgiving with the troops, such a short distance away, depressed me. You begin to feel abandoned...
...Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, David M. Gross, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Patricia Santella, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, Sribala Subramanian, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young