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Death in California gas chamber is classy
SAN QUENTIN. Calif: Barbara Graham wore high heel. and scoffed at a guard, advice to take a deep breath. Caryl Whittier Chessman went smiling, gassed 15 seconds before a reprieve was phoned In, reports AP.
The last person to die in California's gas chamber, police killer Aaron Mitchell, fought to the end. struggling with guards and shouting that he was Jesus.
Twenty five years later, Robert Alton Harris is scheduled to die April 21 at San Quentin State Penitentiary
Harris would be the 195 the person executed In the green chamber and the first to be put to death in California since the 1976 US Supreme Court ruling allowing states to resume use of the death penalty.
Harris 39. was convicted of abducting and killing two 16 year old San Diego boys In 1978 to get) their car for a bank robbery that netted dlrs 3.000 Police said he taunted one boy. telling him to "quit crying and die like a man."
Since the gas chamber opened In 1938. 190 men and four women have died Inside Its metal walls. Graham and Chessman are among the most famous.
Chessman was a kidnapper and sex offender who spend more than 12 years on death row, winning delays on eight execution dates.
Witnesses said he went to his death smiting
Graham, dubbed by the media "Babs the Party Girl.- was executed In 1955 for the murder of an elderly woman. Her two accomplices also were put to death.
"She was a classy gal.' San Francisco Examiner reporter Ed Montgomery wrote,' She walked to the gas chamber with high heels on.
"A lieutenant said to her." when you hear the pellets drop, breathe deep and It will be easier that way." She said to him. "How the hell do you know."
Money, food, land robbed by the dead
BEUINO: Dead people In China are robbing the living of resources, money and even food, an official newspaper said today, reports Reuter.
The money spent on funerals for the seven million people who die In China each year could build 14,000 schools. The Farmers Dally said In a report headlined “the dead eat the- llv Ing"
The wood used In the coffins could build 17 million houses. It said
And the land used for burial ground* could, if planted with crops, feed four million people for a year
"Why do the dead loot the living like this?" The newspa per asked
It blamed traditional, feudal ideas and criticised those who treat their parents poorly while they are alive only to make a tremendous fuss one they are dead.
This has become a very serious social problem. ' the newspaper said.
Medieval times are back again!
SURREL, Albania: On some afternoons, the men of the village can relax, have a smoke and chat, reports AP
Not the women.
One day, while men took their ease under a warm sun. Sabtre Troksi plunged her hands Into a trough of scalding water and vigorously scarped a shirt with a large bar of soap.
Everyone Is suffering from the economic catastrophe In this small Balkan country, but the burden Is heaviest on women.
Living standards have plummeted In the confusing time since Albania abandoned Satanism and began moving toward democracy.
Most of the people tn Europe’s poorest country are on relief. which leaves the men with considerable free time tn the patriarchal, predominantly Muslim society.
Women's lives. In contrast, are filled with chore* and worry.
"Life Is becoming unbearable for them," said Fatos Tarifa. a socialist at Tirana University.
In addition to cooking and cleaning. Troksi collects wood for beat, milks the cow and collects the family rations of food provided y foreign relief agencies.
Women who hold Jobs have a double work load because few men help out at home.
Brigades of women can be seen working in the fields.
"Without mechanization, they are returning to medieval times." said Diana Cull, head of a new government office for women and president of the Forum of Albanian Women.
Terminator promotes youth fitness
INDIANAPOLIS: Arnold Schwarzenegger did push-ups and ran a sack race over the weekend to promote youth fitness, reports AP
The star of the Terminator" moves was in Indianapolis on Saturday as Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. He's stopped in 43 states to promote fitness, and his goal Is all 50, reports AP.
"I'm a strong believer in the squeaky wheels get the grease, so those organizations that make the most noise and are the most obnoxious out three and protest the most are the ones that will get ... things done," he said.