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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dea Don Juan | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Evan J. Mandery, | Title: Vote 'No' for a Competent Chair | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Evan J. Mandery, | Title: Vote 'No' for a Competent Chair | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowout Over The Pacific | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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