Death Row Inmates Speak on Life Between Imagined Walls
Oklahoma death row inmates describe a day to day existence on confinement, raising questions about the ethics of capital punishment as the Supreme Court weighs its constitutionality. They discuss longing for sunlight, worries over possible commutations, and call the wait a form of limbo.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Tulsa Tribune
Jenk Jones Jr
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Jene Jones JR
Associated Press
Mcalester
Okla
Oklahoma
Michael J. ‘Little
Mike” Gibson
Gibson
Felix Fesmire Jr
Roger Mills
Michael Wayne
Big Mike” Watts
Oklahoma County
Calvin Patrick
Patrick
Watts
Fesnire
Eisenhower to Represent Nixon at Chiang Kai-shek Inauguration
Washington AP reports John Eisenhower former ambassador to Belgium will be Nixon's personal representative at Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan inauguration on May 20. Nixon announced the appointment Thursday.
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Washington
John Eisenhower
Belgium
Nixon
Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwan
Colder Over Equator Than It Is Over Poles
Robert E. Ford reports that NOAA now governs weather for the United States and shares striking facts from former Weather Bureau staff. The piece notes 1,800 thunderstorms ongoing worldwide, 45,000 daily, and that equatorial levels of storms reach 90 degrees below zero at high altitude while the poles are 20 degrees warmer. It explains potential 200 foot ocean rise if ice melts and recalls Pleistocene sea levels about 450 feet lower.
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Robert E. Ford
Associated Press
Dallas, Tex
Weather Bureau
Congress
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Commerce Department
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Washington
NOAA
Noah
North
South Pole
Dole Calls Nixon Vietnam Blockade Bold and Necessary
Kansas Senator Bob Dole, national Republican chairman, described Nixon’s North Vietnam blockade as a bold and necessary move. He said the president faced grave political risk, but re-election was secondary to preserving U.S. credibility, speaking to about 500 at a Builders Association dinner in Kansas City.
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Kate
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Kate Bender
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Kan
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Kansas City
Nixon
North Vietnam
Bob Dole
National Republican
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