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Authorities used elaborate scams to smoke out the wiliest fugitives. In New York City, a "Brooklyn Bridge Delivery Service" mailed invoices to criminals' last known addresses, advising that packages were being held for them. When suspects telephoned to ask what their boxes contained, they were given a description of items tailored to their interests. One rapist, for example, was told that a package held adult toys and pornographic material. When the suspect agreed to take the parcel, the "delivery man" showed up with back-up arrest units...
DIED. Carl D. Perkins, 71, liberal Democratic Congressman from Kentucky since 1949, chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee since 1967 and one of the wiliest, most determined minds ever to hide behind a country-bumpkin exterior; of an apparent heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In the 1960s Perkins helped steer Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty legislation through Congress; he had also pushed relentlessly for federal aid for vocational training in 1963 and for primary and secondary education in 1965. Perkins later became probably the most outspoken House critic of Reagan Administration budget cuts...
...calling elections this summer; legally, he can wait until next July. The constitutional package, however, may breathe new popularity into Trudeau's ten-year-old government; in that case the September constitutional conference might be an ideal launching pad for a campaign. One of his country's wiliest political survivors, Trudeau is aware that the voters have what the Canadian Gallup poll calls a love-hate relationship with him. The pollsters found that 43% of Canadians, for example, disapprove of the way their Prime Minister is doing his job, while only 41% approve. But when asked to choose...
Benito Cereno Wallace. The wiliest slave on the slaveship gets a letter from a fellow passenger. It is signed...
...Faulkner is one of the wiliest practitioners of Irish politics, and a fairly recent convert to the moderates. As Prime Minister in 1971, he took a tough line against the Irish Republican Army, which resulted in harsh crackdowns on the Catholic community and the ruthless policy of interning suspected terrorists. Those tactics led to a complete breakdown in security and the assumption of direct rule by Britain. Last spring, however, Faulkner campaigned for a new constitution calling for power-sharing between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics. The measure passed, and led to the formation of an eleven-man coalition...