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...John V. Federico '62, now a physician, says his contact with Kaczynski was "just a passing acquaintance...
...FEDERICO FELLINI'S 1961 FILM La Dolce Vita, the mistress of the journalist played by Marcello Mastroianni castigates him and his photographer companion Paparazzo by telling them, "You're a lot of vultures! Don't you respect anything?" But even the celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi...
Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced a national security alert at all U.S. airports. TIME's Doug Waller reports that the decision was prompted by several concerns: "The extradition of Mousa Abu Marzuk, the suspected Hamas terrorist, the imminent verdict in the World Trade Center trial in New York City, and the Pope's plans to visit Baltimore and New York in October." This is the first national alert since the Persian Gulf War, five years ago. New procedures will include beefing up of airport security personnel, searches of unattended cars at airports, closer surveillance of baggage areas and heightened warnings...
...Though Federico Martinez Macias spent almost 10 years on death row in Texas, the case against him was never strong. He was charged with a double murder arising from a 1983 El Paso burglary. The prime witness was himself a suspect, who was allowed to plead to a lesser charge for testifying against Macias. This man first told a grand jury that he had waited in a car while Macias committed the crime. But when confronted with evidence to the contrary -- including a failed polygraph test -- he subsequently admitted that he had gone into the victims' home and tied...
...contrast, the Attorney General had good news for Transportation Secretary Federico Pena. Reno called off an inquiry that had been scrutinizing a contract won by Pena's former investment firm shortly after he became Secretary; the Justice Department had also been looking into whether the city of Denver, during Pena's mayoralty, had misused federal funds intended for the city's new airport. Reno said there was no credible evidence that Pena had violated any federal laws...