Word: broadhurst
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...shacks are "representative of the student poverty caused by the cuts. We call them `Cut-back City," said Owen R. Broadhurst, a freshman affiliated with the group. He said these structures were different from earlier shanties erected as protests against the apartheid policies of the South African government...
...There are six shacks and a few pup tents up right now, and students have been spending the night in them since February 24th," Broadhurst said. "There are usually 12 to 20 people a night, and different people keep joining so the numbers are growing daily," he said...
...camp's occasionally inconsistent challenge of the Herald's story begins with the assertion that Rice returned to the candidate's town house for just 15 minutes late Friday night to retrieve an address book. In this version, Rice left through the alley exit to spend the night at Broadhurst's nearby home, where she shared a king-size bed with Armandt. Far more perplexing is Hart's unshakable insistence that the group entered and left through the front door of the town house on two separate occasions on Saturday afternoon. During that period the Herald had as many...
...paper printed the story with what some felt was undue haste. While writing the piece late Saturday night, the reporters got a call from Hart's friend William Broadhurst, who claimed that Hart's companion and her girlfriend were guests of his. Broadhurst promised the newsmen a lengthier interview and an opportunity to talk to the women if the reporters would delay their story. They refused, fearing that the extra time would give the Hart camp a chance to construct a cover story and possibly hold a press conference to try to discredit the Herald's article in advance...
...speech before the newspaper publishers, Hart charged that the Herald reporters had "refused to interview the very people who could have given them the facts before filing their story." Executive Editor Heath Meriwether sharply disputed the charge, pointing out that the Sunday story contained responses from both Broadhurst and Hart. Says Savage: "If Hart had even hinted that he wanted to talk to us again later, we would have done that. But he never told us he would give us any further information...