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When Cable News Network featured reports last week that Atlanta police were looking for a black man because of hair samples found on seven of the victims, Commissioner Brown hastened to deny the report. Dozens of publications reported that police in East Fishkill, N.Y., had arrested a black ex-convict who allegedly had abducted a nine-year-old boy and driven off in a truck with Georgia license plates. On the CBS Evening News, Anchorman Dan Rather detailed the arrest, linked it to Atlanta and did not until the last sentences of his minute-long report disclose to his viewers...
DIED. Oetje John Rogge, 77, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General who in 1940 won convictions that helped break up the political machine of former Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and who three years later unsuccessfully sought to convict 33 pro-Nazi Americans of sedition; of cancer; in New York City. Rogge was dismissed by Attorney General Tom Clark in 1946 for making public a report that accused 24 Congressmen of collaborating with a Nazi agent...
...runs an oil and gas exploration company in Lansing, Mich., which the judge insisted was started with smuggling profits, was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined the maximum $60,000. To win his freedom, the wealthy veteran proposed an unusual deal: he would donate $1.75 million to convict-rehabilitation programs and 30 hours a week to helping mental patients during four years of probation...
...always been ugly," said a Florida prisoner serving a life sentence for murder in a letter to Surgeon Edwin Joy. 'That, added to some psychological problems, made me antisocial. I wanted to socialize, but who wants an ugly guy around?" 'His hope: surgery that would help the convict, 31, improve his self-image and perhaps reform...
Jackson, an ex-convict from Walpole, said the Cambridge Committee wants to use the legislation "to embarrass the Commonwealth" and gain publicity for prisoners' plights, but doesn't expect it to pass. "The only thing we can do is raise consciousness," he said...