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...Florida restaurant, dated her, borrowed money from her and asked her to set up a coke deal. Guzman's first trial ended in a hung jury last fall. Since then her attorney has been gathering evidence in an effort to prove official misconduct. At a hearing to dismiss charges against Guzman last month, Miami Federal Judge William Hoeveler posed a pointed query: "Is there any question in anybody's mind that this man is not only a thief but a scoundrel?" After defense attorneys began compiling Portell's history, the DEA removed him from its payroll. Guzman, who returns...
...risk that a candidate may not be prepared for these duties is not insignificant. The fear of the amendment's opponents is not that students are ignorant or incapable, but rather that a campus-wide election would dismiss these basic administrative qualifications as of secondary importance...
Palmore is quick to dismiss councils of the past as unresponsive to student opinion. This year's perceived activism, he argues, is the result of a unique set of personalities whose influence needs to be institutionalized. But for every one who thinks the council is staunchly conservative, another feels it is a group of knee-jerk liberals. In truth it is a representative group of the student population that tries its best to make reasoned decisions on a case-by-case basis. Campus-wide election of the chair will not solve the council's problems...
Middlesex Assistant District Attorney George Murphy must have felt left out. Cambridge District Court Judge Lawrence P. Feloney '43-'46 told him that unless Middlesex Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53 arraigned an alleged murder suspect soon, Feloney would dismiss the charges. Murphy's response: "I don't want to get caught between two Harvard...
Investigators were not ready to dismiss the possibility that Flight 811 was the target of a terrorist bombing, especially when it was recalled that in January a Honolulu radio station received a call from a man threatening to plant a bomb on a U.S. plane unless a member of the Japanese Red Army was released from a U.S. jail. The immediate speculation, however, was that a cargo door had simply been whipped off in flight, taking a large portion of the fuselage with it. If that was the case, the incident was one more in a series of mishaps...