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...refused to help investigators. Through advisers, they charged that local authorities with racist motives were protecting the guilty. They demanded an outside investigation. When Governor Mario Cuomo obliged, appointing Attorney General Robert Abrams as special prosecutor, the Brawleys still refused to cooperate. Last week, after Glenda Brawley defied a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in Poughkeepsie, Judge Angelo Ingrassia fined her $250 and sentenced her to 30 days for contempt. The confrontation then revved up to a higher pitch when Mrs. Brawley took refuge in a New York City church to avoid arrest...
...days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...
...drug kingpin? No, the fugitive was Oliver North, whose disdain for congressional investigators is legendary. This time a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee is demanding to see North's diaries, which may mention drug dealers who were mixed up with the Nicaraguan contras. In spite of the subpoena, North refused to surrender: he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination...
...simply a criminal. North and Poindexter could be standing trial on Election Day, and the evidence against them -- as well as the suspicion that the President will pardon them -- could play a pivotal role in George Bush's campaign for the White House. So could North's attempts to subpoena Reagan and Bush, which he hinted at Friday...
...contras, but the people through the Congress. Still they back the intentions of their men, pretending that it is enough to say that "mistakes were made" when talking about being faithful to fundamental precepts of democracy. With North's resignation from the marines, he has promised to subpoena "high officials" to defend him. Perhaps on the witness stand, those who made the policy will finally be forced to take responsibility for its undemocratic nature...