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...silence was broken two years ago, when the police got a tip from a caller who had been watching the television show Crime Stoppers. She said that on the night of the shooting, she saw Leroy run by her house with a rifle. Her boyfriend, later to become her husband, was a friend of Leroy's and made her swear never to tell. After he died, she had a change of heart. Perhaps it was her guilty conscience at remaining silent for so long. Perhaps it was the $1,000 reward. In any event, her information thawed out the Milledge...
Swasy is now enduring one of the two main results of the subpoena epidemic, a chill on her work because confidential sources may not feel safely anonymous. Other reporters have faced worse. In recent months, Libby Averyt of Texas' Corpus Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
...Beirut. Damascus also delivered an ultimatum, warning that Leyraud must be set free within 48 hours or security forces would go door-to-door, raiding homes to find him. Shortly after the raids began, Lebanon's National News Agency reported on Sunday that Leyraud had been freed. An anonymous caller said the kidnappers had released the Frenchman to promote efforts to gain freedom for Lebanese prisoners held in Israel...
...call from the Bush Administration last summer was tantalizing. Would you be interested, Federal Judge Ricardo Hinojosa was asked, in a promotion to the federal appeals bench? Hinojosa declined but allowed that he would accept an ambassadorship instead. Dumbfounded, his caller noted that the President might have more in mind for his old Texas friend. Hinojosa didn't take the hint. Thus when Thurgood Marshall retired, Bush apparently didn't feel he could name the Brownsville judge as the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. "If I were him," says a senior White House official, "I'd be kicking myself...
...Last April, Cambridge police were called to the Pi Eta club three times in one weekend. One caller reported seeing a number of naked men standing in a window. Others complained of rowdiness. Within days, the Pi's alumni board closed the club. Graduate Board President Stephen P. Endlar '56 said the closing was to allow for needed renovations, but other members said it was prompted by the numerous complaints against the club. Some members of the club said they were wearing black armbands to protest the closure...