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That may seem to be overdoing it, but U.M.W. elections are not the ordinary kind-especially not since 1969 when Boyle soundly defeated Challenger Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski. After a campaign in which Yablonski was beaten up and often kept from speaking, Boyle's henchmen refused to reveal the location of many voting places, did not announce voting hours, electioneered at the polls and chased away poll watchers sent by the other camp. As a result, Boyle's totals bore only a casual relationship to the number of voters in the districts...
...Court rejected an effort by Philadelphia Prosecutor Arlen Specter and his assistant Richard Sprague to show that the state's death penalty has not in fact been imposed arbitrarily. Sprague, who is one of the nation's most fervent supporters of capital punishment and is prosecuting the Yablonski mine union murder cases (TIME, July 17), based his argument on a study he has made of Pennsylvania's condemned men. Poor, black or uneducated defendants, he said, are actually slightly less likely than others to receive death sentences. The court refused to admit the study as evidence. Undaunted...
...black Chrysler, a bodyguard checks the car for a bomb. This is because Sprague, as first assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, has sought a first-degree murder conviction in 66 cases and got what he wanted in 65. Two convictions were against killers of United Mine Workers Official Joseph Yablonski, and word came from the minefields that there was a contract out on Sprague's life. Sprague doesn't take the threat seriously. The people who work...
Strictly amateur assassins, "the boys," as Huddleston called them, wondered whether to blow up Yablonski's house with dynamite or put arsenic in his food or cigars. They even experimented with injecting rat poison into a cigar with a hypodermic needle, "the kind you use to vaccinate hogs." But, as Huddleston reported, the cigar "got all wet and soggy." Albert Pass nixed those schemes. Said Huddleston: "Albert said not to use dynamite because it would probably kill the family and only give Yablonski a headache. He said not to use arsenic because Yablonski would only get sick...
...first, the order was to murder Yablonski before the election, but then, said Huddleston, the union brass had second thoughts: it would surely look as if someone was trying to keep Yablonski from getting elected. The job would have to wait until the election was over. It was just as well. Even with their marching orders, the boys bungled just about everything they had to do. They went to Washington to stalk their man, but they could not even find the union's national headquarters, where they were supposed to shoot him. They drove to Yablonski's home...