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...them normally sedentary landlubbers, from boarding the sturdy 48-ft. fishing trawler Gabriella in Kingston, Jamaica, and heading into the windswept Caribbean on a stomach-churning 124-mile, 15-hour voyage to U.S.-owned Navassa Island, 30 miles west of Haiti. Unaccountably cheerful through the stormy night, the five-man Jamaican crew and the boat's Kingston owner, Gilbert Thompson ("I couldn't trust the responsibility of this trip to just the crew"), kept the craft on course toward its tiny target: a flat-topped limestone rock merely one mile wide and two miles long, with sheer cliffs...
That strangely bifurcated outcome-perhaps the result of a compromise by the five-man, three-woman jury-astonished Plaintiff Attorney Jon Kidneigh. "We did win, didn't we?" he asked. "I've never won one and got nothing." Other lawyers, though puzzled by the verdict, had considered the case one of the weakest among those pending. After using Rely in May 1980, Deletha Lampshire, now 18, of Littleton, Colo., said she experienced typical TSS symptoms, including low blood pressure, high fever and peeling skin. She spent six days in the hospital. Since then, Lampshire told jurors...
...decision was understandable, if perhaps somewhat hasty; the hearing had been going poorly for the tenants with two high-priced and high powered Harvard attorneys consistently besting the residents' ill-prepared and bumbling lawyers. And then there is Harvard's long history of getting what it wants from a five-man board that consistently draws criticism from tenant activists...
...major issues, Vellucci usually campaigns with the Independents, an essential in his East Cambridge stronghold. And after this year's cohesive campaign--waged by the Independents under the slogan "Don't Break the Chain"--Vellucci and the other Independents agreed to try to choose a mayor from among their five-man majority without the participation...
...similar resolution was voted down by a five-man majority that included Vellucci before last week's city elections; lack of support from candidates committed to rent control for his candidacy "might" have had something to do with his switch, Vellucci said. "I have a right to bend...I'm not frozen into anything," he added...