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...page transcript only rekindled suspicions that have surrounded the case from the outset. The report of Justice James Boyle, the crusty Vineyarder who presided over the inquest, concluded that "negligence" on Kennedy's part "appears" to have contributed to the accident. Kennedy admitted traveling at 20 m.p.h. over treacherous Dike Bridge; Boyle termed that speed excessive. Worse, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was Boyle's official finding challenging Kennedy's story that he and Mary Jo left a party to go to the ferry that would take them from Chappaquiddick to their separate lodgings in Edgartown. A paved road bearing left...
...inquest. One was that Kennedy visited the island a few hours before the party, which was attended by the six "boiler-room girls" from Bobby Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and five of Ted's men friends. The testimony made it clear that Kennedy that day crossed Dike Bridge twice and traveled the ferry road three times; the implication was that he was not unfamiliar with the geography...
...Crotonville. David Sive and Alfred S. Forsyth, New York environmental lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable waterways unless Congress first authorizes the project and the Secretary of Transportation approves. No such approval for the New York road had been...
...expert on African development, Dike has served as professor of History and vice-chancellor of the University of Fbadan in Nigeria...
...Dike has been a leading figure in the development and preservation of historical materials in Nigeria. He has been active in several organizations which are promoting the development of higher education in Africa...