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...There is a large number of safeguards built into the system. I think they are adequate," said Dr. A. Clifford Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology, noting that scientific journals often inquire into the methods of experimentation used when considering research for publication...
...ravening Huns. For the past seven months a clutch of Hell's Angels has been on trial in San Francisco's Federal Building, accused of having spent the '70s conspiring to be racketeers. The proceedings are known officially as The United States of America vs. Ralph Barger...
...Oakland, on the flatland side of Golf Links Road, Sharon Barger, 30, genuinely beautiful, a former Miss Livermore, looks pained when someone remarks on her new front door. "They broke down all our doors," she says. The Barger house, described by the press as "an armed camp," is a five-room bungalow. Sharon's biggest mistake seems to have been an abiding loyalty to her husband, the legendary Sonny Barger. Sonny, now 41, led the Angels through the glory days of the '60s: fighting in bars, terrorizing small towns, dropping acid with Ken Kesey, assaulting antiwar demonstrators...
These days Barger's context is the courtroom and the San Francisco County Jail where he is held in lieu of $1 million cash bail. Both he and the prosecutors trace the roots of the present case to "the Zerby bombing." William Zerby is a former drug agent who was obsessed with nailing the Angels and was deafened in 1978 by a planted bomb. The newer, younger Hell's Angels turned meaner while Sonny was in jail. "Things changed. The whole world's meaner," he says. Sonny Barger has no regrets - except maybe about the antiwar demonstrators...
...linemates, Lee Blossom and captain Barger, are no slouches either. A freshman left wing on a team dominated by upperclassmen, Blossom (14-10-24) has rocketed to the upper eschelons of the B.C. scoring stats. Barger, the dark horse choice for captain, is steady at right wing, but most team members point to his off-ice leadership qualities as a key to the team's success. As a walk-on freshman year, Barger spent a year with the subvarsity before seeing duty on the top squad as a penalty-killer the last two seasons...