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Wearing a cream-colored suit, brown-tinted aviator glasses and diamond rings on each pinkie, Weinberg last week began a new role: as the star witness of the first ABSCAM trial. The defendants are Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J., and three Philadelphians: Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Howard Criden. All are accused of accepting $50,000 from FBI agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in return for Myers' promise to introduce an immigration bill...
...federal grand jury in Brooklyn handed down five, four of them involving Philadelphians. Two are Democratic Congressmen: Michael ("Ozzie") Myers and Raymond Lederer. The others: Philadelphia Councilman Louis Johanson, Attorney Howard Criden and Camden (N.J.) Mayor Angelo Errichetti. All are charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and defraud the U.S. They could receive prison terms of up to 25 years and fines of at least...
...This is testimony partly to the sorry quality of medium-sized papers in the U.S. But it is also true that Gannett has expunged the rabid right-wing excesses from a few of its papers-notably those in Springfield, Mo., and Nashville -and dramatically upgraded other properties, like the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. As even Morris Udall admits, "If you're going to have chain newspapers, you're not going to do much better than the kind of aggressive, community-minded, broad-based operation that Gannett...
...state's most popular and powerful politicians: former Governor James Edwards and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. In particular, Thurmond was campaigning for Connally as though his own career were at stake. With the Texan at his side, Thurmond was at a Du Pont plant gate in Camden at 7:30 one morning last week, buttonholing arriving workers, draping an arm around each and whispering confidingly, "He's a mighty good man. Speak a good word...
...Bridgeman Camden...