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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first, dubbed Vesco I by Government lawyers, he offered four Georgians $10 million in late 1976 if they could persuade the incoming Carter Administration to fix his legal problems. The group in turn paid W. Spencer Lee IV, a lawyer from Albany, Ga., $10,000 to talk with his longtime friend and Carter confidant Hamilton Jordan about Vesco's plight. Lee met first with Carter Aide Richard M. Harden, who, claims Lee, persuaded him not to see Jordan. Lee says he then dropped the scheme entirely. After investigating Vesco I for 18 months, a federal grand jury in Washington...
...Saturday night, November 1st, I went to Brighams with a group of gay male students after the finish of a Halloween dance. An intoxicated man reacted with hostility to the fact that two of our group were dressed in cross-gender attire. Before being removed by a policeman who happened to walk in, he struck two people and reinforced in many others the belief that it is important to avoid at all costs "appearing gay" in public. We were all reminded that anyone who is identified as gay is extremely vulnerable to attack. Walking home--in a group, for safety...
...example, calls for escorts increase dramatically during rainy nights; the inference being that people don't like to walk in the rain. Many times the driver arrives at the called-for location to find multiple escorts such as 5 or 6 people who could safely walk in a group to their destination. Likewise, the escort driver is confronted by the lone caller who insists that she/he has to be escorted to a location deep into the reaches of Somerville, North Cambridge or some other off Campus location, usually at a time when the 'T' is still running. There is always...
Freshmen on the committee act as liaisons between their peers and the police, Young said. The group will not be a structured organization, but a group of "informed people who feel they have a connection with the police," he added...
Young said he is not forming the committee in reaction to any particular event, adding that last year he, Saul Chafin, chief of police, and two students met periodically in a similar group. "We're talking to a population that's new in town, and the more aware they are the better," he said...