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bank robberies takes place in the seven-county purview of the FBI'S Los Angeles office. The last day without a bank holdup was Oct. 4,1979. Says Lieutenant Joe Patterson of the Los Angeles County sheriffs robbery squad: 'The word is out on the street, in jail, among junkies: 'Hey, man, if you're hurting, go to the bank.' " Even as bank robberies are generally declining in the U.S. (down 11% during the first half of 1983), they are growing more rampant in Los Angeles (up 18% last year). The Friday before Christmas...
...particularly against good government," declares Times Columnist William Safire, who broke the story and who is still smarting from a wiretap of his own calls ordered by the Nixon Administration in 1969. Any surreptitious use of tape recorders is "flat wrong," says St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times Editor Eugene Patterson. "Bugging is bugging, no matter what you call it." Many major press organizations, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and CBS, bar reporters from secretly taping calls. New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal reminded his staff of their paper's own strict rules the day the Times...
...eagerness to punish the press. According to Stanford University Law Professor Marc Franklin, since 1976 nearly 85% of 106 major libel verdicts by juries have been defeats for journalist defendants, and almost two dozen involved damage awards of more than $1 million. "Juries are the American people," says Eugene Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg Times. "They want to punish us." The Supreme Court may share some of the mistrust. Since 1972, it has ruled against journalist defendants in all four libel appeals it has heard...
...running events against the sluggish Eagles, erasing the better memories of a squad that only broke the wire twice against the fast Cadets in its opening meet. Amy Simon set the pace for the harriers' winning the 1500-meter after a 4:37.4 long one-man show. Next, Patterson raced 55 meters over the hurdles in a winning 8.5 seconds...
Kathleen Durante secured the shot put victory for Harvard when her put landed at 38'5", and the harriers swept the event when Loriel Boulris and Marie Acacia placed second and third. Mariquita Patterson won the long jump, clearing 16'9 1/2", with Theresa Moore in third place. Jacqueline Boudreau assured the harriers' field event success by finishing second in high jump action...