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...Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against Thomas Puccio, the attorney who won acquittal for Claus von Bulow on charges that he tried to kill his wife. The prosecution's chief witness was a confessed extortionist who had set up a phony clinic where, he admitted, he had sex with several patients. After four days of deliberations, the jury last week found Friedman and three others guilty...
Since the joint communique was released, Action Directe, the R.A.F. and radical leftist sympathizers have staged at least 60 terrorist strikes in Western Europe. In Bonn last month a terrorist killing foreshadowed the Besse murder: gunmen ambushed Gerold von Braunmuhl, a senior Foreign Ministry official, as he was returning home from work. The groups' affinity for dedicating their acts to terrorist martyrs has strengthened the image of a coordinated network...
Today the Extension and Education Schools have established scholarships for Cambridge employees. And Professor Von Moltke of the Design School heads a special committee to find a land-use resolution for the Simplex site...
...High Court is a sure winner. Much to the disbelief of The Dersh, Boston Magazine placed the flamboyant barrister on its best dressed list. "The Harvard law prof's wardrobe is beginning to show the influence of the Newport crowd he hung around with while proving that Claus [Von Bulow] wasn't a louse," wrote the editors of the monthly...
Dershowitz added that he turned down offers by von Bulow to dress him during the jet-setter's well-publicized trial. "He did send me some ties, but they're still...