Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Bizarre. But the principal defendant, Mel Patrick Lynch, 38, a New York City fireman, told another, much more bizarre story. Lynch insisted that some time before the supposed abduction he met young Sam in a bar and began a homosexual relationship with him; eventually, says Lynch, Bronfman blackmailed him into joining in a fake kidnaping scheme aimed at extorting money from his father. The second defendant, Dominic Byrne, 54, a limousine-service operator, claimed that Lynch "duped" him into assisting in Bronfman's disappearance...
...room is a sea of drunk and rowdy humanity. Music blares from the stereo as people jockey for position around a fast-emptying keg of beer. No, it is not a clearance sale at the corner bar: this is the scene on many weekends at Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Harvard's only fraternity...
Shooflies Buzz. So far, the cops have not enlisted widespread support for such plaints. For example, the American Bar Association standards for police recommend that "law-enforcement policy not be the subject of collective bargaining." But cops on the street are unconvinced, and they increasingly rank the brass and the bureaucracy along with criminals on their enemies list. Boston police computers now keep a minute-by-minute check on patrolmen, even spewing out suggested time limits for each particular call. "Christ," explodes Patrolman William Hill, "I go out to where a guy is beating the hell out of his wife...
...that the President-elect is in debt to blacks is to put it mildly. During the campaign he promised to appoint more blacks to high Government posts than any previous President. The congressional Black Caucus gathered and submitted names; so did other black organizations such as the National Bar Association and the National Medical Association. Said Jeffalyn Johnson, a senior professor at the Federal Executive Development Institute who spent several months working up potential appointee lists: "There is no shortage of black talent in this country...
...this happened last January, and because of it, Markey received the Massachusetts Bar Association's Legislator of the Year award and was praised in many editorial columns. Looking for a theme for an advertising campaign, Markey's political strategists pounced on the Judiciary Committee incident...