Word: akron
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Friedman's attorneys have requested a new trial in U.S. District Court in Akron, contending that their client's defense was hampered when federal prosecutors withheld important evidence about Presser's role as an FBI informant on Teamsters-related crimes. In a surprising announcement last week, the Justice Department said it would rather dismiss all charges against Friedman than release sensitive documents on Presser's FBI ties. If Judge Sam Bell orders a new trial for Friedman this week, the convicted felon will be allowed to go free...
...conceived in Akron, when Bill Wilson, a stockbroker suffering from an uncontrollable drinking problem, got in touch with Surgeon Robert Holbrook Smith, a total stranger and also an alcoholic. Wilson's desperate idea: apply the buddy system to the problem of quitting. Since then A.A. has grown steadily. Participation in the organization, which defines itself simply as "a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism," has doubled over the past ten years. Explains Cathleen Willis, director of Alcoholics...
Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., the controversial chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, angered black leaders last summer when he gently chided President Reagan for catering too much to minorities. Now, in a speech delivered to an Akron business group, he has accused Democratic Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson, former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks of encouraging blacks to vote for the losing party, thus leading them into a "political Jonestown." "No more Kool-Aid," said Pendleton, who is black, referring to the cyanide-laced drink that killed the Rev. Jim Jones...
...Akron Fathers for Equal Justice...
...stocks 150 patterns in men's size 13AA alone, and women's sizes run from 3 to 13 in eleven widths from AAAAA to EEE. Such selection, plus enthusiastic salespeople, generates intense customer loyalty. So far this year, Cecelia Veal has made three trips to Reyers from Akron, 65 miles away, each time buying three pairs of shoes. Says she: "I'm a shoe freak. I love it here...