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...brother was permanently paralyzed from the neck down in a motorcycle accident, and Lester Zygmaniak, 23, had reached an agonizing decision. "I am here today to end your pain, George. Is that all right with you?" Lester asked. George nodded yes from his hospital bed, and Lester pulled a sawed-off shotgun from under his coat. "The next thing I knew I had shot him," Lester told jurors in Freehold, N.J. as they considered murder charges against him. Last week, after 2½ hours of deliberation, they found Lester not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. They also found that...
...Indian subcontinent, residents of the Himalayan foothills have been chopping down trees at a prodigious rate to get more cropland for the growing population. The deforestation was particularly apparent to Economist Lester R. Brown, an agricultural specialist with the Overseas Development Council in Washington, who has worked periodically in India for 20 years...
...copy the U.S.'s 1930s soil conservation program and reclaim their land. If the anchovies do return in great numbers, the Peruvians can strictly limit the yearly catch and still get fine harvests. But clearly, the first lesson is to understand-and respect-basic ecological realities. As Economist Lester Brown puts it: "If we are to get the food we need, we cannot put more stress on nature than she can stand...
...mortgage banker," who also served as a prominent Agnew fund raiser. They testified that they cooperated with Agnew in a systematic scheme to shake down engineers and road-building contractors in return for favored treatment in contract awards. The other two witnesses were Contractors Allen Green, 51, and Lester Matz, 40, who admitted that they personally delivered such illegal payments to Agnew and his intermediaries...
...Lester Barrett, one of his senior law associates and now a judge in Baltimore County, persuaded him to shift from Democrat to Republican in the early 1950s and thus when he was elected county executive in 1962 he became the first Republican to hold the office in Baltimore County since...