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Federal District Judge Barrington Parker, startled by the disclosures, demanded to be shown Hinckley's correspondence. Justice Department attorneys, who opposed the visitation request, ordered Bundy's Florida cell searched for other Hinckley letters. After the testimony, hospital officials decided that maybe the one-day leave wasn't such a good idea after all and withdrew the proposal...
...victory last week when a federal judge dismissed lawsuits filed by North charging that the independent counsel's position was unconstitutional. North contended that since independent counsels are appointed by a three-judge panel rather than by the Executive Branch, the office violates the constitutional separation of powers. Judge Barrington Parker ruled that North's challenge was premature and probably without merit...
When a suggestion was floated to name the building, which houses the papers of W.E.B. Dubois, after the black separatist born in Great Barrington, the Black Student Union rose up in protest. To this day the library lacks a name...
...1940s, left-wing scholars such as Herbert Marcuse and Barrington Moore, Jr. proudly worked in the Office of Strategic Services, to contribute to the defeat of the Nazis. Now that the primary political-military threats to free societies come from communist states and international terrorism the academic elite has become more reluctant to offer its assistance. Our intelligence about threats to the life and liberty of the United States and its allies can always be improved and one way to improve it is for the American academic elite to offer help when the country is needs it. Scholars are under...
...best roller-coaster ride you had when you were a ten-year- old." So says Steven Trotter, 22, of his 176-ft. plunge over Niagara Falls last week. Lying inside two pickle barrels ringed with giant inflated inner tubes and layers of fiber glass, the part-time bartender from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt...