Week 2 - Malaysia Airlines 370

Chinese Families Demand 'Return' of Those on Missing Jet

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Relatives of Chinese passengers on missing Flight 370 unfurled banners, chanted in protest and demanded the return of loved ones during a press briefing on Sunday.

"We want evidence and we want our families back," said one banner held aloft by some 35 newly arrived family members in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

Another banner read: "Relatives of MH370 strongly condemn the Malaysian government's delay of rescue time. They announced that the plane crashed into the Southern Indian Ocean based on just speculation. They trampled on innocent lives. We want the truth ... Tell the truth to the world.”

Steve Wang, a representative of some of the Chinese families, told Reuters that relatives were unhappy with responses the Malaysian government had provided in Beijing.

"We have demanded that we meet with the prime minister and the transportation minister," Reuters quoted Wang Chunjiang, whose younger brother was on Flight 370, as saying. "We have questions that we would like to ask them in person."

More than 150 of the 239 aboard when Malaysia Airlines MH370 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing were Chinese, and there has been deep anger and dissatisfaction at the Malaysian response to the disaster.
- John Boxley, Christina Marker, Marc Smith and F. Brinley Bruton.


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/chinese-families-demand-return-those-missing-jet-n67096

Structure of the Lead：
WHO-Relatives of Chinese passengers
WHEN-Sunday
WHAT-chanted in protest
WHY-demanded the return of loved ones
WHERE-during a press
HOW-not given

Keywords：

1.unfurl(ed)：打出

2.banners：橫幅、旗幟
3.chant(ed)：高呼
4.trample(d)：踐踏、蹂躪
5.prime minister：首相、總理
6.transportation minister：交通運輸部部長
7.aboard：飛機上
8.dissatisfaction：不滿

Week 1 - 2013 Review

Boston bomb case judge wants 1,000 juror summonses

By Associated Press October 20



BOSTON — At least 1,000 people will be summoned and asked to fill out questionnaires for the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a federal judge said Monday.

Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with carrying out the April 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. He has pleaded not guilty and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Prosecutors say Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, planted two bombs near the marathon finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police several days later.

During a status conference in U.S. District Court on Monday, Judge George O’Toole Jr. said he expects to whittle down the pool of 1,000 potential jurors to about 100 who will be questioned individually. The jury of 12 jurors and 6 alternates would then be chosen from that group.


Jury selection is scheduled to begin Jan. 5. O’Toole said it could be delayed by one day if there are juries for other trials being picked on that date.

Tsarnaev, who is being held in a federal prison while awaiting trial, did not attend Monday’s status conference.

Seven protesters stood outside the courthouse holding placards challenging the case against him. One of them, Karin Friedman, of Boston, called the evidence against Tsarnaev “flimsy.”

A woman who identified herself as the mother-in-law of a Florida man who was shot by the FBI while being questioned about Tamerlan Tsarnaev said she drove two days from her home in Georgia to stand outside the courthouse. Elena Teyer held a placard with photos of son-in-law Ibragim Todashev.

“I am dead because I knew Tsarnaevs. I knew the truth,” the sign read in part.

Todashev was killed in May 2013, about a month after the bombings, while he was being questioned about a triple slaying in Waltham in 2011. Federal authorities have said that Todashev implicated Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the triple slaying.

Authorities cleared the agent, saying Todashev had charged at a Massachusetts state trooper.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/lawyers-due-in-court-in-marathon-bombing-case/2014/10/20/ba531722-5820-11e4-9d6c-756a229d8b18_story.html



Structure of the Lead：
WHO-At least 1,000 people , Tsarnaev
WHEN-Monday
WHAT-will be summoned and asked to fill out questionnaires
WHY-for the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
WHERE-Boston
HOW-not given

Keywords：
1.trial：審訊、訴訟
2.plead：辯護、懇求
3.be charged with：被控告...
4.death penalty：死刑
5.shootout：槍戰
6.whittle down：削減
7.individually：逐一、個別地
8.placard(s)：告示、標語牌
9.state trooper：州警