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<text id=92TT2906>
<title>
Dec. 28, 1992: Society:Briefs
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 28, 1992 What Does Science Tell Us About God?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 18
SOCIETY
Briefs
</hdr><body>
<p> LONG TIME COMING
</p>
<p> A limit was placed on civil rights leader Medgar Evers' life;
a bullet in the back saw to that. Three decades after his
slaying, though, there's no limit on justice. The Mississippi
Supreme Court has cleared the way for a third trial of white
supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, 72, in the assassination of
Evers on June 12, 1963. Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 by
all-white juries, which deadlocked. Beckwith's wife Thelma wept
at the news of the new trial. So did Evers' widow Myrlie.
</p>
<p> TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
</p>
<p> Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri has commuted
the life sentences of two women, Helen Martin and Becca Hughes,
both convicted of murdering abusive husbands. Ashcroft said he
commuted the sentences because the women were convicted before a
1987 law allowing the "battered-spouse syndrome" as a defense.
They are now eligible for parole, but probably neither will be
released for over a year. Critics say Ashcroft should release
the women now.
</p>
<p> SO SUE ME
</p>
<p> When the Treasury Department ordered chess genius Bobby
Fischer to obey U.S. sanctions and forgo a $5 million match in
Yugoslavia last fall, Fischer, the sole American-born world
chess champion, delivered an unambiguous reply: he spit on the
department's letter. He also won the match. Now that a federal
jury has issued a warrant for Fischer's arrest, the misanthropic
grandmaster continues his defiance, telling a Belgrade newspaper
that he will play additional matches there.
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</body></article>
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