Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a Honolulu grand jury indicted Three-Term Mayor Frank Fasi for bribery last March, Special Prosecutor Grant Cooper thought he had an airtight case. The flamboyant Fasi, 57, a former junk dealer given to gestures like throwing a birthday party for himself at Aloha Stadium and inviting 20,000 guests, was charged with entering into a "corrupt understanding" with Local Developer Hal Hansen. Granted immunity from prosecution, Hansen talked a lot. He alleged that Fasi was to have received $500,000 disguised as campaign contributions from Hansen in exchange for the contract to build a $50 million city-sponsored...
...that he feared the evidence would be used against him in a federal case, Hansen refused to testify in court. Circuit Judge Toshimi Sodetani held Hansen in contempt, jailed him for two weeks, then brought him back to the witness stand last week. Again Hansen kept mum, and Prosecutor Cooper, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney hired by Hawaii to handle the case, had no choice but to move for dismissal. Said Cooper to the court as Hansen was set free and Fasi taken off the hook: "Justice has been thwarted." So, too. may be Ariyoshi's hopes...
First there was Athos, Aramis and Porthos and now there is Cooper, Lowry and Sze. History's second great trio of duelers engineered the Harvard women's fencing teams surprisingly easy 13-3 victory over MIT Saturday, winning 12 bouts and losing none...
Captain Nancy Cooper came the closest to having her record blemished. In her fourth and final bout of the afternoon, she quickly went down 4-1 against MIT's Marion Stein. She came back to 4-2 by parrying a Stein attack then counter-attacking into the MIT fencers midsection. Cooper tied the bout at 4-4 with two touches below Stein's attempted parries in two seconds. She clinched the victory by beating Stein's blade downward and lunging forward to touch the unprotected stomach...
...Cooper attributed the victory to intelligent fencing. By figuring out early what MIT expected them to do, the Crimson were able to fence unpredictably and outfox their foes...