Word: wilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entirely the kind he wanted. Reporters and photographers camped outside hotel rooms and mobbed the couple whenever they appeared. (Their hotel cottage in Kenya had two bedrooms, each with twin beds.) The situation became so unruly that the two celebrities took refuge in the home of U.S. Ambassador Wilbert John Le Melle...
...Grande near Port Antonio, earning as much as $35 a day. But the tourist trade is unpredictable, so in the slack fall season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking apples. Wilbert Hutchinson, 28, a truck farmer back home, says he comes to New England "just to have a nice time. I like to watch Wonder Woman." And for Clinton Duncan, 38, who has a wife and seven children home in Kingston, "It's just good to leave your country every now and then...
...then, however, she had already established a connection with the Hearst family. While at PIN, she had struck up a friendship with Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, the black ex-convict who had formed the United Prisoners Union, dedicated to advancing prison reform. (He was gunned down in San Francisco on June 8 by unknown assassins.) Popeye, hinting at contacts with the S.L.A., approached Randolph Hearst with an offer to intercede for Patty's release. Sensing an opportunity, Moore managed to become the go-between in the dealings. It was a role that caught the attention of FBI agents, who thought...
...MOVEMENT'S MORALS: I did not particularly like the world I was in with the black man [Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson] who had made the offer to help Randy Hearst. You know, the murky world of drugs, of wholesale screwing, of filthy language. I was beginning to have my doubts that the man I was dealing with . . . It seemed to me he was trying only to help himself...
What is known is that the groups are growing increasingly violent. FBI officials suspect that radicals have committed some of the state's recent unsolved murders. Among these is the slaying of Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, a black activist who the FBI believes was killed because radicals suspected-incorrectly-that he was a squealer. Last year the radicals claimed responsibility for 19 bombings in California; so far this year they have...