Word: murders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecution in the Andrew P. Puopolo '77 murder retrial argued yesterday that the three defendants acted together when they fought with Harvard football players in Boston's Combat Zone on the morning of the fatal stabbing...
Eyewitnesses in the first trial testified that Leon Easterling was the only person who stabbed Puopolo and Thomas Lincoln '77, another team member. Mundy is trying to prove that all three defendants are guilty of first-degree murder because their attack on the football players was premeditated...
Puopolo died on Dec. 17, 1976, a month after the stabbing, in New England Medical Center. Easterling, Richard S. Allen and Edward Soares were convicted of the murder in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year after ruling the prosecution in the original trial had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. The defendants are black...
...February 10, UFW striker Rufino Contreras, 27, was shot in the face with a .38 caliber bullet by three grower foremen when he tried to talk with strikebreakers in a lettuce field near El Centro, California. His killers escaped justice when a local judge dismissed murder charges without taking testimony from farm worker eyewitnesses to the slaying...
While we regret the violent murder of President Park Chung Hee of South Korea, we welcome the end of his rule, a dictatorship of the worst stripe marked by ruthless suppression of political opposition and civil rights. The end of Park's reign marks the first real chance for the liberalization of the Korean government since then-General Park seized power in the early...