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  • ACQUITTED. SAMI AL-HUSSAYEN, 34, University of Idaho graduate student accused of setting up websites used to recruit terrorists; of three terrorism-related charges; in Boise, Idaho. His case was bolstered by a former Middle East CIA station chief, testifying for the defense, who said al-Hussayen's website has "a clear, unambiguous, almost emotionally written condemnation of terror."

    SPARED THE DEATH PENALTY. TERRY NICHOLS, 49, convicted of 161 state murder counts in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people; in McAlester, Okla. Jurors failed to agree on a punishment, thereby barring use of the death penalty. A judge is expected to sentence Nichols to life in prison without parole.


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    NEW TRIAL SOUGHT. By MARTHA STEWART, convicted in March on charges related to insider trading; following allegations that a Secret Service lab director who provided key prosecution testimony committed perjury; in New York City.

    DIED. ROBERT QUINE, 61, versatile punk guitarist who played with Lou Reed and Richard Hell; a suspected suicide; in New York City. As a button-down law-school graduate, he lent an intellectual image, as well as stylish guitar licks, to the rough rock scene of the 1970s.

    DIED. ROOSEVELT BROWN, 71, Hall of Fame offensive tackle who spent a half-century with the New York Giants; of an apparent heart attack; in Columbus, N.J. He joined the Giants in 1953 and never left. After a 13year playing career, during which his team won seven titles, he stayed on as assistant coach and scout. One of the game's most skilled blockers, he cleared the way for stars like running back Frank Gifford, who said, "I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him."

    DIED. RAY CHARLES, 73, pioneer soul singer and musical institution for more than 50 years; of complications from liver disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. (See ESSAY, page 90.)

    DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, inventor of the Steadicam, a camera-stabilization system, and other innovations in cinematography; of congestive heart failure; in Malibu, Calif. He worked for many years with the director Stanley Kubrick, making possible the gliding camera work in films like The Shining. At the 2001 Oscars, he received a lifetime-achievement award for his technological advances.

    DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, former head of General Motors who guided the company through the turbulent 1960s; in Belleair, Fla. After starting his 44-year career at GM as a statistician, he got the top job in 1967 and helped steer the automaker toward better corporate citizenship as Detroit struggled in the aftermath of the 1968 riots. In 1971 he nominated to GM's board the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who became one of the first African Americans to serve on a major corporate board.

    DIED. MORRIS SCHAPPES, 97, Jewish and Marxist author and scholar; in New York City. As a professor at the City College of New York, he was fired in 1941 with almost 50 other communist sympathizers and convicted of perjury after telling a panel he knew of only three communists at the school, two of them dead. After serving 13 months in prison, he became an editor at Jewish Currents, a left-leaning magazine for secular Jews, for four decades.