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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Bourbeau, a fourth-round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers, Barakett was not drafted by a National Hockey League team. He is now a free agent and can be signed by any club...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Killer B Who's Not Afraid to Sting | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

...thrilled," Field's agent Lynn Rodbenquoted her as saying. "I have long wanted to visitthe campus, and what better way than in an openlimo...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Stallone, Field Win Hasty Pudding Pots | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

...theft case but to investigate Moulton's alleged threat to kill a government witness. The evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Sixth: Brennan short-circuits a wire | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...bold stranger was an FBI agent named Pat Collins. Sitting down with Dellacroce, he began a slow courtship, gradually winning him over by convincing the wary Mafia leader that a private relationship with the federal authorities would not be a bad insurance policy in a high-risk career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Double Life of a Don | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...informant, Dellacroce's cooperation did not keep him out of jail. In 1972 he was sentenced to five years in prison for income tax evasion. Collins had expected that one day Dellacroce would demand payment for his information, but that never happened. The veteran FBI agent died of a heart attack in 1980 at the age of 51. This year Dellacroce was ordered to stand trial on racketeering and conspiracy charges, along with ten other accused members of the Commission. Whether he hoped the payment would come in the form of exoneration from those charges will probably never be known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Double Life of a Don | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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