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...Violence is nothing new in Argentine politics, but it has now reached proportions that are staggering even by local standards. Last Sunday night terrorists scattered more than 50 bombs round Buenos Aires, mainly at automobile showrooms, banks and financial companies. Two men, including a policeman who was trying to dismantle a bomb when it exploded, were killed and several others wounded. Next night, before the city had recovered from the first onslaught, 60 more bombs were planted. Earlier that day the bullet-riddled body of Atilio López, a leftist labor leader and former provincial vice governor, was discovered...
...have been part of a four-member Star team since it was formed last year to undertake the anticorruption series. The quartet interviewed some 700 people, including 48 policemen. According to the Star, a police informant named Larry Keen last spring approached the reporters and offered to bribe a policeman to show them how easy it was. The newsmen say that they demurred. Keen told them he would nonetheless hand an envelope containing money to Police Lieut. Lawrence Turner at a local restaurant. The reporters showed up to observe the exchange from their car, they say, "as a matter...
...case, Wright released a man, accused of shooting and seriously wounding a policeman in a restaurant holdup, on five hundred dollars bail, only to have his bail decision overturned by a fellow Criminal Court judge. Wright questioned the right of the judge--theoretically his equal--to overrule him. But the PBA pressured then Mayor Lindsay into initiating an investigation of Wright's fitness to serve as a judge. Nothing came of the investigation...
...away from South Boston High, where attendance dropped to 136 students, including 86 blacks. But a dozen blocks away, the black students were met by several dozen white mothers, who chanted, "Southie won't go!" and by some 200 stone-throwing white youths. A black student and a policeman received minor injuries. In response to the violence, Boston Civil Rights Leader Thomas Atkins urged black parents to keep their children home from the high school. The white parents vowed to keep up their boycott this week, and even talked of extending it while they try again to challenge...
Dershowitz was in New York representing Edmund A. Rosner, who was seeking a new trial on a 1972 conviction for bribing a policeman. The police officer--whose testimony provided the prosecution with the substance of its case against Rosner--later admitted he perjured himself while first giving his damaging testimony...