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According to Parker, Repetto punched him shortly after the student had Repetto's car towed from The Crimson's private parking lot, where it was blocking a truck delivery for the newspaper...
...because of the loss of a job or even a spouse. While surveying unemployed workers in the Detroit area, University of Michigan Researcher Louis Ferman found one hard-luck victim who had been successively laid off by the Studebaker Corp. in 1962 when it was about to fold, a truck manufacturer that went under in the 1970s, and more recently during cutbacks at a Chrysler plant. By all accounts, "he should have been a basket case," says Ferman, "yet he was one of the best-adjusted fellows I've run into." Asked his secret, the man replied...
...martial law prisoners and their families. Earlier this month, she was one of several people beaten when hoodlums invaded the committee's offices in a Warsaw convent; she suffered bruises and a broken finger when she was hit with a chair. Four other workers were dragged to a truck and later dumped in a suburban forest...
Shortly after Klieman decided to move over to the defense table in 1981, she agreed to represent the alleged kingpin of a truck hijacking operation. "My client looked as if he broke legs for a living," she says, and the court clerk quipped that the fellow had a shot at acquittal "only if he wears a sheet over his head." Klieman set out to polish her client's image. She ate breakfast with him in the court cafeteria, so members of the jury could spot them chatting and relaxing. In the courtroom she touched him constantly and allowed...
According to the defector, arms were secreted in trailer trucks with dummy fuel tanks, then driven from Nicaragua through Honduras to El Salvador. Some of those runs were detected. In 1981 the Reagan Administration displayed photographs of such a truck containing a cache of U.S.-made M-16 rifles in its false bottom. The serial numbers on some of the rifles showed that the weapons had been left behind by U.S. forces in Viet...