Harris Trial Shocks Court Hearst Offers Testimony
In Los Angeles the Harris trial neared its end as Patricia Hearst volunteered to testify against William and Emily Harris and the defense cried of a deal. The Harrises rested without a defense, arguing the prosecution's case was flimsy and marred by reversible errors. Closing arguments and jury submission loom next week.
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Los Angeles
UPI
William
Emily Harris
Patricia Hearst
Harrises
Miss Hearst
Viking to scoop soil in first life test today
The Viking 1 spacecraft in Pasadena is set to scoop a tablespoon of Martian soil and drop it into a biology detector in the first life search on another planet. The operation starts at 4 30 a m EDT and lasts about four and a half hours with multiple samples for organic and inorganic analysis. Biologists expect initial results in 10 to 12 days, though the odds of finding life are seen as remote.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Viking 1
Viking
Mars
Richard Young
Space Agency
Earth
Indictments follow arrest of Tanaka in Japan
Japanese prosecutors indict All Nippon Airways president Tokuji Wakasa and executive Toshio Fujiwara on two counts each of violating foreign currency control law for secretly receiving 536,000 dollars from Lockheed in 1974. Wakasa had been in custody since July 8 and Fujiwara a day earlier.
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Tokyo
UPI
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Tokuji Wakasa
All Nippon Airways
Toshio Fujiwara
Japan
Fujiwara
ANA
Wakasa
Kakuei Tanaka
John W. Clutter
Lockheed
Suspect in Chowchilla case linked to gun sale in Spokane
James Schoenfeld, tied to the Chowchilla bus kidnap case, reportedly sold five guns and 3400 rounds of ammunition to a Spokane sporting goods store on July 19. An employee described the seller as hippie looking with a heavy beard, driving a California-plate car, and authorities investigated multiple search warrants while pursuing unknown suspects and the other Schoenfeld sibling.
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San Francisco
UPI
Chowchilla
James Schoenfeld
Spokane
Wash
Schoenfeld
Canada
Sporting Goods
Mike Miotke
Miotke
California
Oakland
Calif
Alameda
Tom Houchins
U.S
Houchins
Portola Valley
Fred Newhall Woods
San
James
Classified rates and masthead for The Bennington Banner
The Bennington Banner lists contact address at 425 Main St Bennington VT 05201 and toll free 447-0332. It details home delivery 15c per copy and mail subscription rates nationwide and within Vermont with 3 month and 1 year options and second class postage paid in Bennington Vermont.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
U.S
Thomson quits Reagan over Schweiker pick in bid for convention
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson quits endorsing Ronald Reagan after the Schweiker VP choice. He says conservatives may lose the election and names Connally Edwards and Helms as possible acceptable nominees. Thomson will not attend Kansas City or support Reagan, and may back Ford if forced to choose between Ford and Carter.
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Oconcord
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson
United States
Rannald Reagan
Reagan
California
Richard Schweiker
R-Pa
Thomson
Ford
Kansas City
John Connally
Texas
James Edwards
South Carolina
Sen
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Connally
Schweiker
Cotton
Cleveland
Carter
Edwards
Strom Thurmond
Limitations saves lobbyist in illegal contribution case
Former Gulf Oil lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr. was acquitted of making an illegal $5,000 campaign contribution to Senator Daniel K. Inouye. Judge Joseph C. Waddy ruled the evidence failed to prove the crime occurred within the three year window from the indictment. Wild, who admitted the contribution, said he would consider life after the trial and expressed a desire to be a law abiding citizen.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
UPI
Viktor Korchnoi
Soviet Union
Korchnoi
Justice Ministry
Jan Hein Donner
Anatoly Karpov
Karpov
Europe
Donner
de Volkskrant
Washington
Gulf Oil
Claude C. Wild Jr
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Joseph C. Waddy
Wild
Henry Giugin
Inouye
Givgin
Waddy
Gulf
William Hundley
Nadine
Susan
Claude III
Denver
Mary Eileen Jefferson
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Cabinet Members Management Initiative Task Force
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Donald Rumsfeld
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