Word: mente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit Manager Billy Martin heard about LeFlore's robust .569 batting average and two months ago, while visit ing the prison for a speaking engage ment, Martin told him to "come and see me at Tiger Stadium - if you can get a pass to get out." Up for parole, LeFlore got the pass and on June 16 - his 21st birthday - went to Tiger Stadium for a tryout. "I saw him hit balls into the up per deck," says Martin. "If he was 18, you'd pay $100,000 to sign him. He's that good a prospect...
...President to bank robbery, kidnaping and transportation of stolen cars. Since 1936, has had jurisdiction over espionage and sabotage within the U.S. J. Edgar Hoover, director from 1924 until his death last year, expanded FBI authority to in vestigate Communists, Ku Klux Klansmen, radical students and other ele ments he considered a threat to national security. The bureau's latest assign ment: getting to the bottom of the so-called Watergate scandal...
...purchases, but so far there has been no decision. According to a Dayan aide, there are tens of thousands of acres of land in the occupied areas that could be bought from Arab landowners who are willing to sell; purchases have been held up for lack of a govern ment policy...
Malcolm X was killed by a black man. George Wallace was allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe...
Meanwhile, Britain's proconsul in Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, persuaded four prominent Catholics to join an eleven-man advisory commission. Earlier in the week, he received a delegation of women from a Derry ghetto. They were the first delegation of Catholics to meet with the govern ment since the British began interning terrorist suspects without trial last August. The biggest issue preventing a Catholic reconciliation with the govern ment is internment, even though Whitelaw has released 377 of the 929 men originally held in prison camps. Last week Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, accused...