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Spokesman Thomas Degiacomo said there was "no official word" on the cause of the problem. Technicians began work on the problem shortly after it started around 12:30 p.m., he said. And reached at 5 p.m., he predicted the company "should have [phone service] back on before tonight...
While phone lines in every part of the city were disabled, the problem did not affect every building, Degiacomo said...
Magistrate Robert L. DeGiacomo found Gary Sachs, the BAARD member, guilty of obstructing access to an elevator and of refusing to comply with the orders of federal officers to leave the McCormack federal building in Boston during a BAARD sit-in on January 6, the first day of draft registration for men born in 1962. Sentencing has been scheduled for March...
Robert L. Hernandez, Sachs' attorney, said yesterday he would appeal today's decision as well as a decision by DeGiacomo last month in which 14 BAARD members received maximum sentences of 30 days in prison and $50 fines for their participation in the January...
Hemandez said DeGiacomo's decision proved that the protestors were punished "for expressing themselves politically, and in some cases religiously," rather than for violating federal building codes. Nine people convicted on a similar charge last July, when registration was renewed, received six-month probation terms...