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Governor Mario Cuomo had said earlier that the allegations against the three Brawley advisers demanded a "whole new look at the situation." In a strongly worded letter to the attorney general, Cuomo warned that the judicial process could not be "deliberately and contemptuously violated." Meanwhile, U.S. investigators began probing to see whether Sharpton, Maddox and Mason had committed any federal offense while raising funds by mail. As for Brawley, currently living quietly in Monticello, N.Y., how she came to be found last November, wrapped in a plastic bag and covered with scrawled racial epithets, remained a mystery...
These strategies were effective in the Howard Beach case. Governor Mario Cuomo appointed a special prosecutor who succeeded in obtaining convictions against the white thugs. A measure of justice was apparently served...
...Governor Cuomo has again appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case, this time State Attorney General Robert Abrams. But Sharpton, Mason and Maddox are not satisfied with Abrams; they refuse to cooperate with authorities until another prosecutor is appointed...
SOMETHING must be done to ensure that the victims of violent racial crimes--both white and Black--are able to seek justice in our system. Sharpton, Mason and Maddox--when they are not busy rambling on about Cuomo's ties to the mob--have called for the creation of a permanent special prosecutor to handle racial crimes...
...whys have it. Those close to Mario Cuomo say a major reason he did not make the race was his inability to frame a rationale for his candidacy. It all comes back to the old Roger Mudd why-are-you-running question that reduced Ted Kennedy to stutters in 1979. Whatever their faults as campaigners, both Michael Dukakis and George Bush could handle these whys-guy queries. Bush declared himself the designated heir to Reaganism and a man whose resume had earned a final line. For Dukakis, the White House represented a chance to sprinkle Massachusetts Miracle...