Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Bates announced the capture of Patty Hearst, later talked with members and friends of the Hearst family and also coordinated bureau coverage. Correspondent John Austin visited the scenes where the arrests were made and also filed a running chronology of events. Stringer Paul Ciotti maintained an almost constant vigil on the street near the scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should be on the same plane but Catherine Hearst?" As soon...
...sleeping little at night. Young Adam, described as especially fond of his brother, tried to entice others into Monopoly games to pass the anguished hours. A score of FBI agents arrived at the estate to advise the family and monitor events. Up to 50 reporters and photographers kept vigil at the gates. Helicopters came and went, each flight sending rumors through the ranks of the watching press...
Continued Vigil. Outwardly, law enforcement agents remained optimistic about solving the case. They hoped that the huge $275,000 reward would persuade somebody involved in the plot to talk. The investigation will be intensified this week or next when subpoenas are issued for grand jury appearances. Reportedly among those to be questioned are a pair closely associated with the Mafia: Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, who were supposed to meet with Hoffa at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant on the day he disappeared. U.S. Attorney Ralph Guy Jr. is hopeful that the threat of contempt citations will force the mobsters...
While teamster officials met in Boston (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) the vigil continued at the three-acre Hoffa compound north of Detroit. Burly Teamsters patrolled the grounds; an antenna on the roof signaled the presence of FBI agents within the two-story white frame house. Hoffa's wife Josephine occasionally walked the family's German shepherd. For the first time since her husband's disappearance, she left the compound briefly in the company of her son James. Young Hoffa continued to meet a dwindling band of reporters. He added an intriguing new ingredient to the case when...
Ugliest Epithet. Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary...