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...attack. High on the list is George W. Crockett Jr., 64, a black attorney who once served four months for contempt following a Smith Act trial in which he defended eleven accused Communists. Elected to the bench in 1966, he set up court in police headquarters following a 1969 shootout at a black church and immediately began releasing prisoners who were being held without counsel. Now presiding judge for a term of one year, Crockett is still tough on the cops, but has come to appear conservative by comparison with newer, still more outspoken judges...
...junkie. He wanted to know if Tom had ever been strung out. No. Then Tom couldn't know what it was like. He told me that he had one brother who was in jail for dealing heroin and another in jail for attempted murder; that one got into a shootout in a bank robbery and nearly got killed but looked like he would live to stand trial. Then he told me that he had fixed ten cc's of heroin one time and David said it was a lie--nobody could do up ten cc's and live. They started...
Shoot to Kill. The Times of London, among others, last week directly blamed Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi for underwriting much of the terrorism, including the Dec. 17 massacre at Rome and an earlier Shootout at Athens International Airport. Gaddafi, who last week jointly announced his decision to merge his country with neighboring Tunisia, probably does give some oil money to the guerrillas, and provides them with haven from time to time. But it is an open question among intelligence agencies whether Gaddafi himself directly orders such terrorism. Many European authorities would just as soon not find out, since Europe...
Such hell-for-leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy...
...pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors, and may go them a little better in the department of spleen-shattering spectacle. But perhaps there did not have to be one in the first place. Similarly, a better locale might have been selected for the final shootout, one that did not duplicate the seedy denouement of The French Connection quite so closely...