Word: wiliest
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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Authorities used elaborate scams to smoke out the wiliest fugitives. In New York City, a "Brooklyn Bridge Delivery Service" mailed invoices to criminals' last known addresses, advising that packages were being held for them. When suspects telephoned to ask what their boxes contained, they were given a description of items tailored to their interests. One rapist, for example, was told that a package held adult toys and pornographic material. When the suspect agreed to take the parcel, the "delivery man" showed up with back-up arrest units...
DIED. Carl D. Perkins, 71, liberal Democratic Congressman from Kentucky since 1949, chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee since 1967 and one of the wiliest, most determined minds ever to hide behind a country-bumpkin exterior; of an apparent heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In the 1960s Perkins helped steer Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty legislation through Congress; he had also pushed relentlessly for federal aid for vocational training in 1963 and for primary and secondary education in 1965. Perkins later became probably the most outspoken House critic of Reagan Administration budget cuts...