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So many investigators sought information about the two men as possible suspects that last month a three-day conference was held in Monroe, La., to pool the facts. Eighty investigators from 21 states gathered to watch videotapes of the confessions, swap notes on missing-persons files and unsolved homicides, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching a New Breed of Killer | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

There is no certainty that it can pass, however, and so the commission may after all expire on schedule by month's end. If so, it will die mute. Since a quorum of four is needed to transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking a Deadlock with TNT | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Composed of one or two chairman, a secretary, treasurer, a social committee and representatives from the various House organizations and any where from half a dozen to 50 interested House residents. House Committees convene once a week to plan social events and allocate money for them and other House needs...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Grassroots Government | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Officials of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are cracking down on what they believe is the widespread use of threats and violence to force migrants and other transients to work. Prosecutors have dusted off a set of slavery and peonage laws originally dating from the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fighting the New Slavery | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

The city council is the discriminating body in the city. Every Monday at 5:30 p.m., the nine councillors convene and hash out matters ranging from the budget to street names. The members are elected at-large by the Hare proportional system: Cambridge is one of only a handful of...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Harvard's Home: Cambridge, Mass. | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

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