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...combination of per verse sex and killing has also characterized many of the notorious mass murderers of history. Gilles de Rais, body guard to Joan of Arc, con fessed at his trial to slaugh tering hundreds of boys in the 15th century "solely for the pleasure and delectation of lust." Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard, specialized in ravishing and killing lonely women until the guillotine ended his career in 1922. A German schoolteacher named Wagner, who was obsessed with an act of sodomy that he said he committed when he was 27, killed his family of five, nine other people...
Rich Meislin's August 7th article on the Black Rock Forest omits an important phrase when he quotes me as saying I have found no data to support the contention that acreage Con Ed needs "is in any way essential to the forest..." What I said is that I have no information indicating that the acreage in question "is in any way essential to research at the forest..." Daniel Steiner General Counsel
...time being, the University is favoring no side at all. Steiner said last week that he has found no data to support the contention that the acreage desired by Con Ed "is in any way essential to the forest--it's not as if 50 per cent is going to be taken...
However, environmental sources doubted that condemnation would occur. "I don't think Con Ed would go that far," one source said. "It would make them look like real ogres in the eyes of the public, and could only be a last resort...
...University may choose to do nothing, forcing Con Ed to take the land. Harvard could then claim that there was nothing else it could do. Attorneys said, however, that if the matter went that far, Harvard would have an opportunity to challenge condemnation--if it were willing to fight. They did not speculate on the results...