Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thoroughly as any specific issue of the economy or national security. The story keeps replaying day after day like a bad soap opera. Through it all has been the not-too-faint suggestion of an Executive structure stalled and befuddled by ignorance or enmity and always on the brink of explosion or collapse...
...Brink's trio found guilty
...have no respect for the laws, the verdict or the sentence. We will continue to maintain our position as freedom fighters." With that defiant statement, three defendants in the Brink's robbery case shrugged off their conviction last week in Goshen, N.Y., on 21 counts of murder and armed robbery...
...three radical killers, David Gilbert, Judith Clark and Kuwasi Balagoon, did not even bother to attend the reading of the verdict, which found them guilty of killing a Brink's guard and two police officers during a $1.6 million robbery in New York's Rockland County. Gilbert tried to turn his day of reckoning into a celebration by marrying Weather Underground Radical Kathy Boudin. After the brief ceremony, conducted by a jail chaplain and sealed by a kiss, the two were hauled off to separate cells. Boudin and another Brink's suspect, Samuel Brown, will begin their...
Despite the Goshen convictions, the prosecution of the Brink's case has not been entirely successful. Of the six suspects who were tried this year in federal district court in New York City in connection with the robbery, none was found guilty of participating in the crime. Two defendants were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy in connection with crimes dating from 1979. Two were convicted of being accessories after the Brink's holdup, while the remaining pair was acquitted. Of the 28 counts against the defendants, 21 were thrown out by the jury...