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...from behind. "Hey, you!" he shouted. "What are you doing? What's wrong?" asked the terrified Bernstein. She told psychiatrists later that she feared she was about to be thrown into a car, stabbed or raped. The store detectives suspected Bernstein of being an accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein and the two girls denied knowing her, the store insisted on pressing charges. "You might have a false arrest on your hands," warned the sergeant at the police station when Bernstein was brought...
Sprague's overload of sharpshooting energy has led him to accept a varied collection of public interest cases. He has represented a group of local Chinese protesting the redevelopment of Philadelphia's Chinatown, offered to oversee a probe requested by local Puerto Rican groups concerned over a badly prosecuted murder and arson case, and is handling a lawsuit by Developer Sam Lefrak and the New York City Housing Authority that attempts to prove worldwide price fixing by five major oil companies. Other Sprague cases include a local data research corporation's antitrust suit against IBM, and defense...
...disruption program against the SWP, begun in 1961, was modelled on the COINTELPRO campaign against the Communist party which covertly extended the anti-communist legislation of the fifties. COINTELPRO-SWP was one of many subsequent programs; the others attacked Puerto Rican Independence groups, the KKK, Black militants, and the "New Left" (anti-war and student groups. In COINTELPRO-SWP, the FBI was particularly concerned with interfering in the party's electoral campaigns. The bureau pursued this goal through writing slanderous letters and publicizing dubious aspects of SWP candidates' backgrounds. The FBI also persuaded the established parties to challenge...
Some New Yorkers protested. The only Puerto Rican in the House of Representatives, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, suggested that the board could "find more impressive people than Mr. Albizu, who supported violence and overthrow of governments." Asked LaGuardia's widow, Marie: "Can they do that?" At week's end the board was standing by its eccentric decision...
...impressive win the Bay Shore a while back, then sizzled the nine furlongs of the Wood Memorial in New York two weekends ago, routing a field of Derby hopefuls in the record time of 1:47 2/5. On The Sly (finishing second) and Cojak (fifth) trailed the Puerto Rican speedball in that one, and will be seeing him again when post time rolls around tomorrow...