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Speeding down the Los Angeles freeway one morning last week to drop off a friend at Burbank airport, Ginny Foat was in high spirits. Her life was brimming with plans. President of the California chapter of the National Organization for Women and a respected figure in feminist and Democratic politics, Foat intended to go as a delegate to the Democratic state convention later in the week, attend law school next fall and, perhaps, pursue a political career. But her future was abruptly derailed by her past at the airport parking lot. Two policemen arrested Foat for the brutal murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Charge | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...second time that Foat, born Virginia Galuzzo in Brooklyn 42 years ago, has been arrested for murder. Her case became an instant cause célèbre last week among irate feminists, who say police are harassing Foat because of her politics but offer no evidence to support their charge. In 1965, according to Louisiana police, Foat lured Buenos Aires Visitor Moises Chayo out of a Canal Street cocktail lounge where she worked as a waitress and drove him to a deserted road outside the city. Police allege that Foat and her then husband, John Sidote, a bouncer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Charge | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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