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...Jo Jo White and Don Chaney triggered a first-period Boston Celtics explosion that provided the margin as Boston beat Buffalo, 109-101, to clinch at least a tie for first place in the Atlantic Division of the National Basketball Association...
...freedoms. In an attempt to explain what the election means, the Armed Forces Movement launched a program last month called dinamizaçã (dynamiza-tion). Army commandos with tanks, planes, trucks and landing barges went into remote regions, putting on exhibition maneuvers to get people together. Explains Captain João Carlos Albuquerque Pinto: "Our teams are apolitical. We only explain democracy. Later the political parties can reach the population themselves. We just tell the people that they can now speak freely because there are no secret police...
...family decided that Jo could no longer be trusted with David, so Teddy took over as his mother, and David grew up believing that Jo was his sister. He was raised by the family's notions of total freedom; he was kept out of school and picked up his education from the people who gravitated to the storefront seeking food and shelter. The storefront, which the group turned into a factory to produce Tiffany-style lampshades rather than into a coffeehouse, overflowed with dogs, vagrants, hanging lamps, plants, glass-cutting equipment, books, rags and grime...
...Jo finally "ran from the family," as she puts it, leaving her son behind. "I realized that if I were ever going to get him out I had to get out myself." In the next two years, she got psychiatric help, moved to Peekskill, N.Y., where she bought a house, set up another lamp-making studio, enrolled at Empire State College, joined the community ambulance corps, and once even sent the impoverished family $75,000 to keep up mortgage payments...
...comply with the court order and, before going to jail herself, told Micah and Peter Yee, 15, a storefront regular picked up by the family in a nearby park, to hide David. In October 1973 the three disappeared and were last thought to be somewhere in Connecticut. In desperation, Jo Oppenheimer has offered a $2,500 reward to anyone who can help her find her son. Only a few people have responded with information about a boy they believe to be David. In addition, she has spent some $100,000 on detective fees, newspaper ads and lawyers. But Dolph...