Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether properly alarmed, lured by reward money ($31,000 and climbing) or pursuing twisted ends of their own, New Yorkers overwhelmed special police telephone lines. The main task-force center near Shea Stadium sometimes logged more than 100 calls an hour; the telephone company counted some 1,000 other hourly callers who found the lines busy. Fanned by frenzied tabloid coverage in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, including a cliched open letter to Son of Sam and a sensational-and false-report that the Mafia had joined the hunt because the killings were hurting mob-controlled dating bars...
...hunt has none of the excitement of TV's familiar police dramas. At the control center at 109th Precinct headquarters in Queens, the city-wide task force mostly answers telephones, hears out citizens who bring their information personally, dispatches teams to the tedious job of trying to determine if the informants' suspicions have a solid base...
There was U.S. Ambassador Albert ("Bud") Sherer strolling arm in arm with Soviet Diplomat, Yuli Vorontsov through the glass and concrete Sava Corference Center outside Belgrade. Both looked as if they had just pulled off some master stroke of detente. As a matter of fact they had. After seven weeks of edgy deliberations to decide the date, duration agenda and procedures for a higher-level conference this autumn, following up the 1975 Helsinki accord, the envoys of 35 nations reached an agreement last week in a surprisingly conciliatory spirit...
...agents trained in the Quantico center received the tip about the moonlighting music publishers in Philadelphia and cracked the case wide open. But their efforts may receive a setback this week, when U.S. Judge J. William Ditter rules on defense motions to throw out the indictments. The reason: no federal law specifically prohibits the theft of computer time or computer data. The U.S. Attorney decided to charge the pair with mail fraud for advertising their music, and that may prove inadequate...
...blood into a firm long dominated by sawy-but-aging Onassis advisers in their 60s and 70s. In June she hired Louis Anderson, 48, a Greek American who had run Exxon's marine operations since 1970, to boss Olympic Maritime S.A., the Onassis fleet's operational brain center, which is headquartered in a three-story building in Monte Carlo...