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...diner he was gawked at; customers and workers cast sideways glances at the celebrity in their midst and spoke approvingly of his violent act. Waitress Irene Wienckoski asked for his autograph, and Goetz responded with a cryptically high-toned message: "To Irene--To be trusted is a better compliment than to be loved." Across the street he stopped at a Toys "R" Us store to buy a toy fire engine, just as he did in December when he fled Manhattan, driving north through New England, before turning himself in to police in Concord, N.H. Dashing hopes that the mysterious fire...
...Goetz began his leap from anonymity on the afternoon of Dec. 22, when he was riding in a seedy subway car in lower Manhattan along with some 20 other passengers. The four youths, according to witnesses, were acting in a rowdy, intimidating manner. When they approached Goetz and asked him for $5, he replied, "I have $5 for each of you," and fired five bullets from a nonlicensed .38-cal. handgun, wounding all four and shooting two in the back. Then he fled. According to the prosecution, Goetz intended to kill the teen- agers, although he did not consider himself...
President Reagan was asked about the Goetz case at midweek, certainly the first time a subway shooting had surfaced at a presidential news conference. His comment: he sympathized with public frustration about crime, but citizens could not take the law into their own hands...
Without any help from Goetz, who has kept a notably low profile, passions roused by the shootings were running high. When New York police set up a special hot line to seek evidence in the case, they were deluged with phone calls backing Goetz; many of the well-wishers suggested that he run for mayor or receive a medal. Like many radio talk-show hosts, Clark Weber of Chicago station WIND has been swamped with pro-Goetz calls. "They won't let it go," he said. "There's an intense frustration out there, and it bothers me." Bob Grant...
Pugnacious New York Daily News Columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote several bitter columns accusing the white Goetz and his supporters of racism. As Cabey's condition worsened, Breslin wrote, "Those who thought it was fine for Goetz to shoot a black in the back, even if it paralyzed him for life, now conceivably could be asked to raise their cheers for death." But much black opinion has come down on Goetz's side. Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called Goetz "the avenger for all of us" and offered to raise defense money. "Some black man ought...