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...local CBS affiliate, WCAU, showed that the 64% approval rating the mayor received last spring for his handling of the Move incident fell twelve points just during the hearings. In municipal elections last week, Ronald D. Castille became the first Republican in 16 years to win the race for district attorney, trouncing Goode's candidate, Robert W. Williams...
...relative's immigration card. Caballero, 24, a native of Apatzingán in Mexico's Michoácan state, it turned out, is an illegal immigrant--a fact quickly picked up by local papers and federal officials. "He embarrassed the immigration service," said Arthur Shanks, the agency's deputy district director...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 48, former middleweight boxing contender who, along with Truck Driver John Artis, was convicted in 1967 of shooting three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern; by a U.S. district judge, on the ground that the verdict was based on prejudice and prosecutors' errors. The case received national attention in 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out the original convictions. Bob Dylan championed Carter's plight in song and, along with Boxer Muhammad Ali, helped raise a $600,000 defense fund. The two men were convicted again in a retrial after which Carter served...
Just who was this man, and where did he get off telling South Africa's Ambassador how his country should be run? No matter. Randall Robinson, 6 ft. 5 in. of polished brass, kept boring in. Accompanied by several civil rights advocates, including District of Columbia Delegate Walter Fauntroy, Robinson went to the South African embassy on Massachusetts Street in Washington and demanded of then Ambassador Bernardus Fourie that the Pretoria government release its political prisoners and extend civil rights to blacks. Fourie demanded that his visitors leave, but Robinson and the others refused. Arrested, they spent the night...
...idea to build a defensive shield against nuclear missiles, even though his organization, High Frontier, uses the words in a new pro-SDI television commercial. George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars movie trilogy, hates the usage most of all. His company, Lucasfilm, asked a Washington federal district court to enjoin the TV spot on the ground that it damages a valuable trademark (film revenues to date: $1.3 billion) by taking Star Wars out of "the congenial realm of fantasy and entertainment" and associating it with "the frightening world of nuclear holocaust and death." When Judge Gerhard Gesell refused...