Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cops found no one in the house. The MOVE members had hidden themselves in a corner of the basement. O'Neil then ordered a crane to begin demolishing the house as warnings were shouted over a police loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead...
...Crane is a politician of the old school--good to his cronies and cheery with the electorate (he sings and pals around with Bobby Orr). Renomination is a likely...
Boston City Council President Lawrence S. DiCara '71, Crane's principal opponent in the primary, is a familiar figure on the local scene, though less well-known to voters elsewhere in the state...
DiCara is ambitious, and he never thought much of Crane, especially after the incumbent offered his help if DiCara would only get out of the race and run for secretary of state...
...charging Crane with squandering the taxpayers' money by running a sloppy office and depositing Massachusetts money in out-of-state banks--not to mention a number of other alleged irregularities--DiCara is trying to create the image of an incompetent treasurer...