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McMartin's grandson Raymond Buckey, 25, was arrested in connection with that incident, but was later freed for lack of evidence. The arrest sparked a wider investigation, and in November the school shut down. Twenty-five families have filed civil suits against the nursery, some asking more than $1 million in damages. "Virginia McMartin was a sweet little old lady," said an incredulous father, whose three-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter were, in his words, "brutalized" at the center. "We thought it was the best place for our children...
...California man hunt was a special project, Involving 120 investigators, half from the Marshals Service and half from local police agencies. The 60 two-member teams.were freed from day-today duties. Morris described much of their assignment as "plain old beating-the-streets police work." He attributes the lack of interagency bickering to the fact that the officers were tracking the habitual criminals who give the police and the public the most trouble...
...release-four years early-stunned SWAPO officials and diplomats in London and the United Nations. Toivo made it clear that he felt he had been freed as a blatant propaganda ploy by South Africa, which has been trying to prove to U.S. diplomats that it is making good-faith efforts to negotiate with the guerrillas. Whatever the motives, Toivo's release is the latest in a series of fast-moving events that promises to alter radically the diplomatic, political and military situation in Southern Africa, long troubled by the hostile relationships between white-ruled South Africa and its black...
...cancel a union pact. What it must show is that the labor contract unduly "burdens" its prospects for recovery and that it has made "reasonable" attempts to bargain with the union for deferred or smaller wage increases or other money saving measures. Only then can it be altogether freed by the court from its labor obligations. The court also ruled, 5 to 4, that a company may cancel its union contracts the moment it files for bankruptcy, rather than waiting for a court to rule on its reorganization plan...
...their "political myth, "Freed and Stone create a flat and unoriginal character. This peevish politician is just another "hard luck kid" who developed a complex because he played second fiddle all his life--to his big brother, to Eisenhower, to Kennedy. At the end of the play, he reaches for the apron strings of his Quaker mother, whining "Mama, tell me what to do." He's the typical wimp who has cracked under pressure and now suffers under the delusion that he was really a hero who preserved his "secret honor...