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When the trial opened last week in St. George's, the island's capital, the proceedings were livery indeed. At one point, Phyllis Coard collapsed on the courtroom floor. As four policewomen struggled to lift the defendant, she shouted, "I've been on a hunger strike for...
The records of Jo-Pel and Schiavone were subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Republican Robert B. Fiske Jr., with FBI cooperation, but this probe produced no legal action. Fiske's successor, Democrat John S. Martin Jr., obtained guilty pleas from Masselli and Orlando for hijacking and conspiring...
The play's denouement comes with the arrival of Sister Mary's former students who returned for a reunion of sorts. The group reads like a Laundry list of Catholic casualties-an unwed mother, an agnostic who's had two abortions, a homosexual and an alcoholic wife beater who constantly...
Much depends on Gromyko's reaction to any new approaches suggested by Reagan. Longtime observers of the Soviet Foreign Minister have nicknamed him "Grim Grom" for his stony demeanor and negative responses to pleas for Soviet compromise. Says a U.S. diplomat: "He loves to put you on the defensive...
Amid all the clamor, independent Challenger James Taylor's painfully earnest pleas for nuclear "sanity" are muffled. Taylor, 34, a former newspaper reporter who refuses all PAC campaign contributions, is so strapped for cash that his first campaign signs were hand-lettered. Though he may get some votes from...