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...concern was to save lives?hostages and inmates alike," he explained later. "We had to give the negotiations a chance." His first concession was to let into the compound a group of outsiders, chosen by the prisoners, to "oversee" the situation. They included New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, Republican State Senator John R. Dunne and Clarence Jones, black publisher of Manhattan's Amsterdam News. But they also wanted Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale. At one point there were as many as 30 mediators...
...convicted, along with his younger brother, of robbing a gas station of less than $100; for the theft, he spent five years in Elmira State Reformatory. In 1965, four years after his release, Blyden was convicted, on somewhat uncertain testimony, of robbing a Bronx car-rental agency. Blyden insisted that he was not guilty. After he was sentenced to a 15-to 20-year term, he began studying law in order to prepare briefs appealing his conviction...
...Brett to my friends, but you may call me darling." Lady Brett Ashley speaking? No, Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore, TV's engaging former Saint), who is the Oxbridge playboy half of The Persuaders. His co-persuader is Danny Wilde, a new-rich high roller from The Bronx (Tony Curtis), and the two of them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch the show fast lest...
Certain that he was being followed, Grady took painstaking precautions, backtracking over routes and calling his wife only from a pay phone near their Bronx home. Agents spotted him in Camden in June, noted that he had been keeping the courthouse under surveillance, and started keeping an eye on him. Their observations also revealed that Grady had set up his command post in the home of Dr. William Anderson, a Camden osteopath who surrendered to the FBI the day after the roundup...
...teams is required to shift one franchise into the home territory of another, and both the Giants and Jets would surely veto any such effort. Though the Giants have a lease to play in Yankee Stadium through 1974, some city officials favored canceling it as soon as possible. Snorted Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams: "If they want to play in a swamp, let them play in a swamp right...