Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Negotiations were finally speeded up by an artificial deadline. At midnight last Wednesday (Washington time), Linowitz's six-month commission as special negotiator was due to expire. He would not have been ejected from the conference room. Nevertheless, he warned his fellow negotiators: "I guess I become a pumpkin at midnight." They made sure he stayed to the end of the ball. After a final, 14-hour marathon session, with only short breaks, they completed the treaty...
...former friends found him changed and difficult when he returned from the Army in 1974. He picked up various jobs, including serving as a private security guard before taking a civil service exam and landing his $256-a-week position sorting mail by machine. He worked 4 p.m. to midnight, which gave him ample time after hours to search for young women whom he could gun down in the dark with minimal risk of being caught...
Operation Midnight Climax was disclosed last week at a Senate hearing, adding bizarre details to the story of CIA drug research exposed in 1975 and 1976 by Government investigations. Further revelations were provided by a cache of 8,000 heavily censored documents sifted by Senate aides and New York Times reporters...
...killer's apparent sexual focus. Six of the eight attacks were on parked cars, the gunman approaching from the rear and firing into the front passenger window. Six of the shootings took place on weekend nights. One was as early as 7:30 p.m., the others after midnight. Ballistics tests helped conclude that all eight assaults were almost certainly the work of the same .44 revolver, an easily concealed, short-barreled gun that fires with a loud roar, a big kick and a deadly effect...
...investigators grappled futilely last week, police patrols cruised parks and lovers' lanes, noting license-plate numbers of all cars seen in such areas after midnight. Police have placed mannequins in some parked cars to simulate necking couples; the use of live decoys was considered too dangerous. Vigilante action was spreading. When a false rumor spread that a man seized by police in a car in Brooklyn for carrying two pistols was Son of Sam, angry crowds swarmed out of bar and threatened to attack the gunman. Police sped away with him for his own protection. The bitter yearning...