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Much had happened in the interval. The Viet Nam War had ended for Americans. A comrade-in-arms, described by Alpert's attorney as her lover, had been killed in 1971 as lawmen stormed New York's Attica state prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father...
Though remote-control planes have long been used by the military, the Jefferson County sheriffs office is the first law-enforcement agency to develop a similar device. Some local residents complain that a craft laden with explosives and controlled by inexperienced lawmen could easily become a menace. Moreover, if Bailey also uses the plane to photograph crime and accident sites, the RPV could turn into an airborne invader of a citizen's privacy...
Charles, Phillipson, Berman and Sabath were all charged with "illegal dissection." During the investigation, lawmen also turned up what they saw as incriminating evidence against another doctor, Kenneth Edelin, the chief resident obstetrician at Boston City Hospital, where the allegedly illegal experiment was performed...
Like some macabre fulfillment of McLuhanism, the bloodiest and most suspenseful act in the tragedy of Patricia Campbell Hearst became a public event. Millions of Americans watched last week as television carried live the Shootout in a Los Angeles residential neighborhood between lawmen and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had kidnaped-and claimed to have converted to radical terrorism-the 20-year-old publishing heiress. The TV images seemed plucked from old Viet Nam film clips: street fighting in Danang perhaps, the helicopters wheeling overhead, the hissing tear-gas canisters, finally the flames of the enemy...
...incongruous blend of circus and bloodbath. The number of lawmen on the scene swelled to 350. Miraculously, no civilians or officers were seriously wounded. Neighborhood dogs kept up a howling chorus that could be heard over the most intense firing. In a park on the corner, kids climbed to the tops of slides for a better-but hazardous -look...