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...Hawaiians, while Bill Gold, co-owner of a vintage clothing store called Repeat Performance in Los Angeles, will go on buying trips to the Midwest to ferret out some good old numbers that have long been packed away -- perhaps in embarrassment. Now, in the islands, says Dave Rockland of Surf Line Hawaii, "we're fighting to make deliveries. It's the Cabbage Patch doll phenomenon...
...seven political extremists charged in connection with the $1.6 million robbery of a Brink's armored truck in New York's Rockland County in 1981, the most notorious was Kathy Boudin, a member of the violent Weather Underground during the late 1960s. Daughter of prominent New York Civil Rights Attorney Leonard Boudin, she had been a fugitive since 1970, when she fled from a Greenwich Village town house that was destroyed by the explosion of a bomb factory secreted inside. Boudin pleaded innocent to charges of robbery and murder in the Brink's case, in which...
...prospect of spending even $100,000, not unusual for a major full-dress murder trial, is enough to threaten some small towns and counties with penury. Under a turn-of-the-century New York law, for instance, Rockland County must foot the Brink's bill because the murders and robbery occurred there, even though changes of venue moved the first trial to Orange County and the second to Westchester. To pay for the first trial, Rockland last year had to double a new county sales tax. The huge expenses in the second have touched off a war of words...
...three convicts face possible terms of 75 years to life. Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz will seek the maximum when they are sentenced Oct. 14. Said Gribetz: "There has not been a word of contrition or remorse for the murders. We would be fools not to incarcerate them for the rest of their lives...
Some observers were startled by the results of the federal case, which had been carefully orchestrated with Rockland County authorities to maximize the chance of convictions. The federal prosecutors relied heavily on the testimony of two informants who defense attorneys said were lying to save themselves. Gribetz, however, was able to introduce testimony from eyewitnesses to the crimes. In the federal prosecution's defense, Gribetz said: "They had the more difficult case in that theirs rested upon informant testimony." Nevertheless, even U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, who presided over the five-month federal trial, expressed surprise...