Word: harrisburgs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 18 months in Harrisburg, Miller is already taking a lot of heat for closing down a juvenile prison that housed 400 of the state's toughest youths. Most are now in Massachusetts-style group and foster homes. Though some legislators grumble about Miller's pushy style and say he has yet to provide an alternative to the closed reformatory, he still has Governor Milton Shapp's support. Yet the battle-weary Miller worries about his future. Says he: "The more you try to do in this field, the less likely you are to build a career...
...epidemiologists to the victims' families sought an answer: What microbe, fungus, toxin or other killer took the lives of more than a score of people who had been present at the 1976 annual convention of the Pennsylvania American Legion in Philadelphia? "Death here," reported Willwerth by telephone from Harrisburg, where he talked with investigating doctors, "is just as sudden and unexplained as in a crime or science-fiction story. Even for the literal minded, it seems as though an evil spirit is loose." Willwerth followed the trail of misery and sudden death westward from Philadelphia to hospitals, laboratories...
...effort to track down the Philadelphia killer, some 150 federal and state disease detectives-physicians, biologists, chemists-set to work in Pennsylvania in a massive microbe hunt that resembled a police dragnet. Working round the clock, state officials turned an office in Harrisburg into a sort of "war room." One wall of the makeshift headquarters was covered with a map pierced with colored pins tracing the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease-red pins for deaths, yellow ones for reported illness. At several desks, shirtsleeved workers transferred information onto large sheets of graph paper. At others, workers telephoned the state...
Robert Meeropol, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Eqbal Ahmad, co-defendant in the Harrisburg eight trial, will speak as part of a teach-in, "The CIA, Intelligence and Repression," tonight at Boston University Law School...
...necessary to place covert actions in the context of overt governmental actions of equally dubious legality, specifically the wave of prosecutions that the Nixon-Mitchell Justice Department trumped up, almost none of which has stood up in court. These trials--The Chicago 8, the Panther 21, the Harrisburg 7, Bobby Seale, and Huey Newton--not only deprived the left of its most capable leaders for crucial periods of time, but forced it to concentrate its energies and funds to obtain their releases. I do not want to argue that the New Left would have been dramatically more successful in terms...