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...began as a Brink's job, gorier than most, botched but otherwise routine. As police and FBI agents scrutinized the facts, the fingerprints and the getaway-car license plates, however, something larger, more complex, yet weirdly familiar stared back at them. The suspects were specters from a radical past: members of the Weather Underground, soldiers of the Black Liberation Army, onetime Black Panthers. They included half-forgotten radicals, fugitives who had been running so long that no one bothered to chase them any more. More than a week after the $1.6 million armored-car holdup near Nyack...
...fleeing the bloody holdup, the Brink's bandits had literally made tracks. To begin with, there were plenty of witnesses to the blitzkrieg-style heist at Nanuet National Bank, just outside Nyack. There were also witnesses to the police Shootout near by that had led to the capture of Weather Undergrounders Katherine Boudin, 38, David Gilbert, 37, and Judith Clark, 31, as well as Accomplice Samuel Brown, 41, a career criminal. In addition, guns and getaway cars were easily traced to the names of other suspects and to the addresses of their safe houses. The houses, in turn, provided...
...governing council. He and Raskin, who have a four-year-old son, were arraigned in New York last week on a 1979 charge for possession of explosives. Raskin was later released on $ 100,000 bail posted by her brother. The couple have not been linked with the Brink...
Except for the murderous fusillades, the botched Brink's job seemed a routine case. But as police and federal agents began to examine it closely, they found themselves back in the 1960s rummaging through the stale and dusty catacombs of Viet Nam-era radicalism...
Police were also pursuing possible connections between last week's robbery and earlier crimes. Could the residue of the Weather Underground have been involved in bloody Brink's ambushes in The Bronx last June and in Brooklyn in December? Could they have had a hand in the killing of a New York City policeman in Queens last April? Or a role in Joanne Chesimard's 1979 escape from prison...