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...long ordeal was about over, Donovan struck a defiant note two weeks ago after a four-hour grilling before a grand jury in The Bronx in New York City. The jurors had been looking into Schiavone's subway work at the request of Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, a four-term Democrat. Donovan claimed that the jury was doing nothing more than "a rehash" of "the baseless allegations" that Silverman had investigated. It was all "a witch hunt," he said. The Labor Secretary said he had hired independent experts to give him lie-detector tests, and "needless...
...down last November; seven teachers were indicted on 207 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse. The prosecutor charged last week that one of the defendants drugged a seven-year-old boy to make him sexually compliant. Such horrific tales are becoming depressingly familiar. Said Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola: "This kind of child abuse has been going on for a long time...
...rare epilepsy" testimony had convinced a jury in a similar case in 1976 (see above), argued that Durkin had temporarily gone insane. The jury found Durkin not guilty, but passed over the insanity issue and decided the officer had thought his life was in danger. Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola expressed disgust at the verdict: "Any man who shoots an unarmed man twice in the back should not be given a gun and put back on the streets." Durkin did not return to duty...
...Isaac Van Grove's The Story of Ruth, the first opera the freshman had ever seen. By the end of her senior year, she had sung in twelve student productions and had won some 35 vocal contests. Shortly after graduation, she took first place in the prestigious Merola Opera Program competition in San Francisco...
...Merola victory in 1971 gave Mitchell a niche in the San Francisco Opera's summer apprentice program and, more important, a place in the heart of the company's then general director, Kurt Herbert Adler. Two years later, Leona sang her first Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the San Francisco Spring Opera Theater. In 1974 she also won a $10,000 Opera America grant, and used it to move to Los Angeles to begin studies with Voice Teacher Ernest St. John Metz, still her coach and mentor...