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This year, the sheriff slated to open the ceremonies is under indictment for a medley of not -so-savory criminal charges...
...Sheriff John P. McGonigle has been opening and closing Commencement ceremonies for almost 10 year now without a hitch. Two weeks ago, McGonigle was indicted on charges including extortion, racketeering and filing false tax returns. McGonigle pleaded not guilty to the charges in the U.S. District Court...
McGonigle's indictment has prompted a fight with Governor William F. Weld '66, who has suspended him. McGonigle is now fighting the ruling in court on the grounds that he is an elected official, and other have jumped to the beleaguered sheriff's defense...
DIED. LUCIUS AMERSON, 60, one of the Deep South's first black sheriffs; of complications related to a stroke; in Tuskegee, Alabama. A pioneer in the resurgence of black participation in Southern civic life, Amerson served as Macon County sheriff from 1967 to 1987, well into the era of the New South...
...mute, guardian black giant, who was a sort of eunuch figure, and a sainted brother who died an awful death when young and innocent, and a little boy who has his arm severed by a passing train. In a climactic scene, one horrible man, a whip-mean, pockmarked little sheriff, literally eats another horrible man, the abusive husband, whom the ladies have barbecued and served up in their restaurant as an ingenious method of disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal...