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Hume describes a feud based on random, vendetta killings. "Many, many innocent people have been killed," he says. "There's a tit-for-tat campaign of sectarian murder, where randomly chosen Catholics and Protestants are killed by the violent groups, simply because of their religion and for no other reason at all." One day the IRA kills a Protestant, Hume says, and the next day the Ulster Defence Association retaliates and kills a Catholic...
...Vendetta. Ruffs clearing statement said that the FBI had examined records of the Michigan committees and the two unions, both of which are heavy political contributors (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Officials of those groups had been interviewed. At Ruffs request, Ford had supplied financial records and authorized Ruff to examine an audit of his finances for the years 1967-72 made by the Internal Revenue Service and the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Concluded Ruff: "The evidence developed during this investigation was not corroborative of the allegation on which it was predicated. Nor did evidence ... give reason to believe...
...Ford been the victim of a political plot to smear him? Apparently not. As one investigator told TIME, "Right from the start, everyone was very sensitive to that possibility. But there never was any indication of a political vendetta." Ruff concluded that there was "no apparent motive" of the informer "to fabricate." TIME has also learned that the informer was not directly connected with either of the two unions. But he was once in a position to know the internal affairs of at least one of them...
...Dupuis, fellow senior Linsley, and teammate Lucy Wood, the game finally settled a two-year-old vendetta. They are the only three players left over from the 1974 squad which was humiliated by the Big Green...
When he was charged last December with extorting a $25,000 contribution, West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., charged in turn that John A. Field III, the Federal prosecutor pressing the case, was conducting "a vicious political vendetta" in order "to feed his personal ambitions." Last week the Republican Governor stood vindicated after a jury in Charleston, W. Va., found him innocent. Said a tearful, defiant Moore: "An apology is due the citizens of this state...