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...York Correspondent Barry Kalb covered the latest indictment of the subway gunman and talked to defense lawyers to turn up new details about Goetz's personality and past. Kalb also drew on his experience covering Watergate to report on how grand juries work. His New York colleague, Correspondent Kenneth Banta, talked with Goetz's neighbors and friends and rode the city's subways for a day to canvass straphangers on the level and fear of crime. Banta knows about crime first hand: he was the victim of an attempted mid-Manhattan robbery six years ago. While reporting this week...
...body-building devices, the pale visage of the scrawny, bespectacled fellow at the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by a burly bully. When the news first flashed that a wispy-haired man in a windbreaker had shot four teenagers who threatened him on the subway, that 98-lb. weakling became overnight a quixotic urban American hero. Because nothing much was known about him, the 37-year-old electrical engineer became a tabula rasa on which Americans etched their uneasiness and projected their fantasies of retaliation. Goetz was also a media-made man, composed of scraps of headlines...
Fifty years ago, as a freshman representative on Beacon Hill. O'Neill introduced the original bill requesting funds for the subway extension. That steering failed, but O' Neil continued to play an instrumental role in steering key bills through Congress...
Although New York "Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz is reputed to be publicity shy, he was anything but reticent last week. Goetz seemed to be everywhere, telling his increasingly disputed story about shooting and wounding four black teenagers who approached him on a Manhattan subway last Dec. 22. He appeared on local television news shows, wrote a bylined article for the New York Post, and ate take-out Chinese food with Barbara Walters in his 14th Street apartment for ABC's 20/20. ABC broadcast segments of a tape made by New Hampshire police on which Goetz is heard saying, "I knew...
...jury investigating him. The tactic is unorthodox; if he testifies (no date has yet been set), he waives immunity and anything he says can be used against him later in court. The grand jury, which was convened last week on the basis of new evidence, heard testimony from a subway passenger who contradicted Goetz's account of the shooting. Two of the gunman's victims, Troy Canty and James Ramseur, also appeared after they were granted immunity...