Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fedora and treated his victims with elaborate courtesy. He once even apologetically told a clerk, "I wouldn't do this if I didn't have to." After seven holdup witnesses picked the same man out of a police lineup last February, the authorities indicted an unlikely suspect: the Rev. Bernard T. Pagano, 53, then assistant pastor at St. Mary's Refuge of Sinners Church in Cambridge...
Philadelphia's barbaric police practices were first exposed in detail in a Pulitzer-prizewinning series of articles published by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The newspaper reported, for example, that during interrogations at police headquarters, suspects were routinely handcuffed to metal chairs, questioned for as long as 24 hours and often beaten. The officers sometimes were careful to leave no bruises: one technique was to cushion a suspect's head with a phone book and hammer it with a heavy object. But on other occasions, the newspaper reported, officers beat suspects with lead pipes, blackjacks, brass knuckles, handcuffs, chairs...
Actually, police in New York suspect that Sindona may be more afraid of the charges against him in Italy, which are simpler than the 99 counts in the U.S. indictment. It sets forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign...
...periods ranging up to six months, they administered the synthetic version of LRH to 27 women, aged 21 to 37, only one of whom also relied on an I.U.D. The drug was remarkably effective. Only two women showed any signs of ovulation - probably because of faulty dosages, the doctors suspect. Though the hormone's long-term effects are still unknown, immediate side effects were limited to coldlike sniffles and temporary headaches. There is speculation that LRH derivatives may also prove useful as a male contraceptive since gonadotropins regulate the production of sperm, but the actual marketing of a nasal...
Claman says that "Linda has always lived on the edge of danger. If she has money, she'll spend it on satin disco pants or gifts for her friends. If she doesn't have money, that's O.K. too. I suspect that Linda wouldn't feel bad if no more acting jobs came up. She'd figure she could get a job working at the corner service station...