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Davenport, a 30-year veteran of the Cambridge police force, was sworn in as police chief last Monday...
...investigation known as Project Haven, which was aimed at Caribbean financial high jinks. One of the alleged depositors, listed in the copied documents as having a $100,000 account, was a self-described retired investor, Jack Payner, of Cleveland. He was subsequently indicted on a charge of having falsely sworn on his 1972 tax return that he had no foreign bank account. Now U.S. District Judge John M. Manos of Cleveland has thrown out the evidence against Payner-and possibly the evidence against dozens of other defendants involved in Project Haven. Manos declared that the IRS agents' conduct...
...Davenport, a 30-year veteran of the Cambridge Police Department, was sworn in yesterday as the city's chief of police, succeeding Nicholas Fratto who has been serving as temporary chief for the past six months...
Whatever his virtues as U.N. Ambassador, the former Georgia Congressman has displayed an almost arrogant carelessness in his statements-so much so that State Department officials have tagged him "Motor Mouth." Young, 45, had barely been sworn in when he said that Fidel Castro's Cuban mercenaries "bring a certain stability to Angola." That was only a warmup. There were bloopers about sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia, about Britain having almost "invented racism," about Arab attitudes toward Israelis being akin to Ku Klux Klan attitudes toward blacks. Soon the State Department found itself working almost full time to clarify...
...students come from a "different type of political reality," regardless of their economic and financial backgrounds. Doe laments the changing attitudes of black students at the University. He recalls going to a reception for black freshmen this September where he closed his eyes and, he says, "I could have sworn I was with a bunch of upper class white students." Doe says he has little faith in the University's ability to develop a socially responsible position as an investor. "How can the University clean up its act if America can't clean up its act?" he asks...