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...Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey; Simon & Schuster; 409 pages...
Time: Nov. 30, 1974. Scene: the bleached and arid Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Nothing about the desert seemed auspicious. Yet Anthropologist Donald Johanson had a premonition that this would be no ordinary morning. Shortly afterward, his hunch was ratified. The day was not merely unusual; it was epochal...
After cataloguing some fossils, Johanson introduced a colleague to a section labeled Locality 162. They came across an arm bone, then other parts from the same creature. By happenstance, they had unearthed a find that would alter the accepted view of man's origins...
...worst. Just over an hour later, the jurors returned to the federal courtroom in Brooklyn with a verdict: all four defendants were guilty of bribery, conspiracy and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. In addition to Errichetti, the defendants were Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Harry Criden, all from Philadelphia. The four were accused of sharing in a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as representatives of an Arab sheik in return for help on an immigration bill. The defendants face up to 25 years in prison...
According to testimony at the trial, Errichetti, Johanson and Criden tried unsuccessfully to squeeze even more money from the pseudo Arabs. The trio arranged for a Philadelphia lawyer, Ellis Cook, to impersonate Mario Noto, then deputy commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and demand a bribe for himself. But Cook's memory apparently failed him at the critical moment. Weinberg asked his name. "Nopo," replied Cook. "Nopo?" asked Weinberg in disbelief. "Yeah, Nopo," said Cook. "N-o-p-o. "Suspecting an impostor, Weinberg ordered Cook to leave. As the tape was shown, laughter rippled through the courtroom...