12/4    Troll deleted again.

Amy Biehl was a Stanfurd graduate who left for S. Africa on a Fulbright
scholarship to help with voter registration in the nation's first all-race
1994 election marking the end of apartheid.  In the wrong place at the wrong
time, she was in the black township of Guguletu when an angry mob returning
from a political rally stoned her car, dragged her out, beat her, and killed
her.  At least one of her black compatriots attempted to defend her, telling
them that she was a friend.  Four people were convicted and sentenced to
18 years.  In July of this year, these four men were released from prison,
granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (as required by the
amnesty provision, they had fully confessed to the attack, including
the individual who committed the fatal stab wound).  Peter and Linda Biehl
of Newport Beach, CA, released a public statement supporting the commission's
decision, and have since regularly travelled to S. Africa to confirm to
passersby that they have truly forgiven their daughter's killers, and towards
fostering understanding between those who would be blood enemies.  Whether
each part of this story is right or wrong I don't say -- that you know that
each part happened and think about it is what's important.  When this
disappears, ~jctwu/pub/biehl.
        \_ Well now I understand how the daughter could be so stupid, given
        what the parents are like.  I knew about the daughter, but had no
        idea this was a multi-generational defect.
        \_ was the daughter cute?  is the mom?  do you have film of the
           mother and daughter doing the nasty?  otherwise, why should
           we care?
        \_ so was the bitch cute or not?
        \_ The daughter is almost as stupid as the parents.  Yet another
           total victory for the forces of Charles Darwin.