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...April 1989, when a container ship from Colombia docked during the night at Karachi, Pakistan. Black-unit operatives met the ship after paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...
Zucker said Crane's failure to distance himself from the Pi Eta Club "shows a callousness that we certainly would not want to have in the president of the bar association...
...those who remain on the alumni board, Daniel C. Crane '72, president-elect of the Massachusetts Bar Association, has drawn the most criticism. Several members of the legal community said Crane's continued association with the club undermines efforts to improve the treatment of women in the courts...
Contacted at his Cambridge office yesterday afternoon, Crane refused to discuss his relationship to the Pi Eta Club with The Crimson...
Frucher said Crane's refusal to explain his reasons for being on the club's board confirmed that "it's an embarrassing affiliation...