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“No one understood better the power of that incident than I did... It was an issue, and it was an issue we knew was coming.”
The scandal refers to the 1986 weekend furlough release of Willie Horton, who was serving a life sentence for murder in a Massachusetts prison. Horton did not return to jail after his furlough and subsequently raped a woman twice, after assaulting her fiancé in April 1987.
Although Dukakis did not institute the Massachusetts furlough program during his tenure, he nevertheless defended it as a means of criminal rehabilitation.
“We did come together,” Kleinman says. “And I’m hoping that in the future we will be out of this extraordinary time and we will return to the situation we’ve had in the past, in which...
“Both teams did extremely well in the postseason,” Staller said. “We qualified the maximum number of fencers, which only four other teams were able to do.”