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...Bedford police officer yesterday testified that the victim of an alleged gang rape took him to Big Dan's Bar on the night of the attack last March, but failed to point out two of the six men now being tried for the rape...
...outcome of this case will affect the way rape cases are tried in the future," said Elizabeth L. Bennett, a counselor at New Bedford's Rape Crisis Project. The cape center was started last August in response to the incident...
...town the size of New Bedford 100,000 residents a rape probably is committed every other day. Bennett said, adding that she feels the Big Dan's incident has made New Bedford residents much more sensitive about rape...
...anyone came into New Bedford for a minute, they'd find everyone talking about it--in stores, in restaurants...
...defendants are resident aliens of Portuguese descent. Some speak English only haltingly, and they wear earphones to hear a Portuguese translation of the proceedings. Their background has tugged hard at the seams of ethnic tranquillity in New Bedford, a onetime whaling capital and mill town that in recent years had fallen on difficult times. Portuguese Americans, who make up more than half of the population of 98,000, have played a major part in rejuvenating the local fishing industry. But following the attack, anti-Portuguese slurs popped up on local radio call-in shows, as well as in countless private...