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Telluride's unique ambience and special magic are set picturesquely at the & end of State Highway 145 in a box canyon some 350 difficult miles and a couple of decades southwest of Denver. But the onetime rip-roaring mining town in the San Juan Mountains has never quite been a backwater. Butch Cassidy came by to rob one of its banks, and William Jennings Bryan stopped off to say a few words. The local mines used to yield gold, silver and other precious metals, but the last of the major ones closed...
Atlanta officials who have screened the movie are, not surprisingly, outraged. "The trial went on for nine weeks, and there were a couple of hundred witnesses," says Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton (played in the film by Rip Torn). "By picking which ones to use, you can pretty much write any script you want--which is what they did." Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who took office in 1982, expresses "grave disappointment" with the show. "The city of Atlanta dealt with a tragedy that had a potential for enormous personal and racial conflict, and really went through it together...
...never saw a pattern," Binder said. "But once they got the knife in, they knew how to rip us apart...
...DECEMBER 22. 1984, an electronics expect named Bernhard Goetz became a hero by pulling out a gun and shooting four teenagers who, he told the conductor of the IRI subway train on which he was riding, tried to rip him off. Then he went to New Hampshire...
...silver revolver out of the waistband of his jeans and fired a well-aimed bullet into each of his harassers as other passengers dived screaming to the floor. The gunman then helped two terrified women to their feet and calmly told a conductor that the youths "tried to rip me off." He stepped through the rear door of the car, jumped onto the tracks and disappeared into the gloom of the subway tunnel. His victims, all ages 18 or 19, were rushed to hospitals; three appeared to be recovering, but Darryl Cabey was paralyzed from the waist down...