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...Jackson, for one, seemed a super star likely to put himself on the open market. To add fuel to the fears, Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Andy Messersmith, armed with his December arbitration victory, began entertaining bids last week from at least four teams. Nonetheless, the owners finally "bit the bullet," said American League President Lee MacPhail. At least they chewed on it. Last week in what they called their "final and best offer," they proposed to let present major leaguers play out one-year options on current contracts and become free agents. But each would then...
...white car, police briefly stopped a white Dodge but let the occupants go when they recognized Carter, then a nationally ranked middleweight boxer who lived in Paterson. Later that night the Dodge was identified by a witness, and a search of it turned up one .32-cal. bullet and a 12-gauge shotgun shell. But Carter and Artis, who had also been in the car, were not charged until four months later when two professional thieves suddenly provided identifications...
...argued, a Southern jury, in the aftermath of national revulsion over the John and Robert Kennedy assassinations, would want to show that the South did not tolerate such acts. Nevertheless, one state witness, who claimed to have seen Ray leaving the rooming house after the shooting, seemed unreliable. The bullet that hit King was too fragmented to be conclusively linked to Ray's rifle by ballistics tests. No one saw Ray shoot. A sharp lawyer presumably had a chance to raise reasonable doubt in the minds of a jury about Ray's guilt. On the other hand...
...hundred miles an hour. Today, staggered traffic lights and radar-equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation for many Michigan youths. At the tame speed limit of 50, the expanse of Woodward is now a half-hour drive, past Kentucky Fried Chicken and bullet proof liquor stores, closed automobile factories, the now-deserted Motown records building, Cass Corridor--one of the nation's most crime-infested districts--several middle-class neighborhoods, and Bloomfield Hills, the nation's wealthiest per capita suburb. On a typical ride down Woodward the motorist is not likely...
...Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds in Gutierez's leg. Another priest, Fernando Salas, later smuggled Gutierez and a guerrilla companion, Maria Elena Bachman, into the embassy of the Holy See. Wheelan and Maroto were arrested along with Cassidy; Salas and another priest gave themselves up. All were subsequently released. None of the priests...