Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Bedford, N.Y., woman was a victim of an increasingly common scam: telephone credit card fraud. Last week such cases seemed to grow larger and more outlandish by the day. Philip Rubin, 71, of Boca Raton, Fla., received a statement demanding $176,983. Said he: "I was more than a little surprised." Even that was topped by a bill presented to the Michigan Association of Governmental Employees for calls charged to its new, but not yet distributed, credit cards. It came...
...speech was testimony, not dialogue, and the courtroom melodrama could claim the legitimacy of a news story. The account came from one of six Portuguese immigrants accused of the gang rape of a young woman on a barroom pool table in New Bedford, Mass. Two weeks before, the alleged victim had described equally vividly a far different version of the same scene, in which she was forced into intercourse, but fought off oral sex, while the bartender and some patrons looked on but did not summon the police...
...VERDICT came down yesterday in the New Bedford rape case. Six men and one woman were tried. Four of the men were convicted of aggravated rape (two last week and two yesterday); the woman was only made to feel guilty...
...long-term impact of the Big Dan's rape case is unclear. Local rape crisis centers have already reported rape victims withdrawing cases in response to the press's treatment of the New Bedford case. Conversely, the publicity has forced many to re-evaluate rape and push for greater legal safeguards for rape victims...
...principal issues in the campaign will be transportation and the environment. The quick completion of repairs on the Southeast Expressway, which connects the South Shore with Boston, heads the list of area concerns. The presence of toxic PCBs in New Bedford Harbor and cuts in the Coast Guard budget have upset district residents and are major campaign issues...