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...radical past: members of the Weather Underground, soldiers of the Black Liberation Army, onetime Black Panthers. They included half-forgotten radicals, fugitives who had been running so long that no one bothered to chase them any more. More than a week after the $1.6 million armored-car holdup near Nyack, N.Y., in which two policemen and a Brink's guard were killed, investigators were still rounding up ghosts of the old left and exploring how the disparate and perhaps desperate groups had joined together in so ill-conceived a plot. More than ever, they were wondering...
...fleeing the bloody holdup, the Brink's bandits had literally made tracks. To begin with, there were plenty of witnesses to the blitzkrieg-style heist at Nanuet National Bank, just outside Nyack. There were also witnesses to the police Shootout near by that had led to the capture of Weather Undergrounders Katherine Boudin, 38, David Gilbert, 37, and Judith Clark, 31, as well as Accomplice Samuel Brown, 41, a career criminal. In addition, guns and getaway cars were easily traced to the names of other suspects and to the addresses of their safe houses. The houses, in turn, provided...
...dragnet were Samuel Smith, 37, and Nathaniel Burns, 35, following a gunfight with arresting officers in which Smith was killed. The pair had been spotted in New York City on a Queens highway. They were riding in a car bearing a license plate seen on another car at the Nyack Shootout. Last week their connection with the robbery was confirmed by a souvenir found in Smith's pocket: a spent .38-cal. bullet, which had apparently failed to penetrate the bulletproof vest he was wearing. The slug was traced to the gun of Sergeant Edward O'Grady...
...investigation continued, police rounded up more suspects. Two men were spotted in Queens in a car connected with the holdup. They fired at police with guns similar to those used in Nyack. Samuel Smith, 37, was killed in the shootout; Nat Burns, 38, a former Black Panther, was taken into custody. Later, two more arrests were made. Jeffrey Carl Jones, 33, and Eleanor Stein Raskin, also in her 30s, were both fugitive Weather Undergrounders and said to be part of the May 19 Coalition...
...large crowd gathered outside Nyack Village Hall last Friday as the four battered-looking suspects, under heavy guard, were brought in for arraignment. A witness charged that it was Brown who had killed the two local policemen, a crime that could carry the death penalty. Kathy Boudin, along with her Weather comrades, remained silent throughout the proceedings-her feelings, motives, the arcane design of her politics still submerged, still underground. -By Claudia Wallis...