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...hours later reality seemed to sink in. After huddling with aides and advisers, Barry temporarily handed over day-to-day control of the government to City Administrator Carol Thompson, retaining only specific powers, such as the right to sign contracts with the Federal Government and to veto legislation. He postponed announcing his re-election...
...County grand jury last Friday heard testimony from a truck driver from Lowell who was a classmate of Charles' at Northeastern Vocational. According to the witness, Charles asked him to help do away with his wife. Interviewed earlier by a Boston television station, the classmate said that Charles considered Carol's pregnancy a hindrance to his plans to open a restaurant and wanted her to have an abortion. "He had plans to go into business for himself," he said. "He didn't want to spend his life busting his ass for somebody else...
...portrait of the marriage is as incomplete as the picture that has so far been painted of Charles' siblings. One of Charles' brothers was involved in a scheme that led to Carol's murder; another, who appears to have known three days after the shooting that Charles was the killer, never told the police. They all grieved publicly over Carol and the baby. Matthew even helped carry Carol's coffin to her grave. The news of Charles' suicide initally elicited ^ sorrow from his in-laws, who had been expecting him for dinner that very night. They thought...
...selling minks and perhaps of his wife, who was about to realize her own dreams of a family, dreams he did not share. As stupefying as it seems, Stuart apparently carried out his monstrous deed only to remake himself into a glamorous restaurateur. Against such vanity and deceit, as Carol Stuart -- and Boston -- found, there is no protection...
...side effect of the racial hysteria that enveloped Boston after Carol Stuart's murder was to strengthen a fear among many African Americans that they are the targets of a white-orchestrated genocide plot. That belief has become endemic in recent years, as crack has invaded ghettos across the nation, causing so much death and destruction that many blacks are convinced its spread cannot be accidental. More or less preposterous genocide theories are being spun by black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan, so-called intellectuals and prominent clergymen. Even the National Urban League published this passage in its 1989 report...