Major heroin ring run from prison cell exposed in multi state bust
A 50 year old retired master sergeant and 14 others were charged in a Thai linked heroin operation valued at around 100 million dollars. Indictments say shipments moved through Seymour Johnson and Langley bases to the East Coast over about seven years. Notable arrestees include Leslie Ike Atkinson and his son and daughter in law in Raleigh, plus several military personnel and civilians across North Carolina Virginia California and Georgia.
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Raleigh, N.C
UPI
North Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
California
Leslie
Ike” Atkinson
Atlanta
Atkinson
Luchai Ruviwat
Chai
Ashton
James Warren Smedley
Jasper Myrick Jr
Khlang
Bangkok
Leslie Atkinson Arrington
Michael Otis Arrington
Raleigh
Leslie Atkinson
William Kelly Brown
Augusta
William King Wright
Ft. Lee
Freddie Clay Thornton
Detroit
Air Force
Rudolph Valentino Jennings
Goldsboro
N.C
William Thomas
Monroe Lorenzo Martin Jr
Long Beach
Calif
Robert Ernest Patterson
Hampton
James McArthur
Fayetteville
Moscow accuses U S of backing Zionist groups in New York
The Soviet Union charged the United States with backing Zionist groups behind acts of terrorism in New York. Tass cited a bomb at Amtorg as evidence and said Zionist thugs act with U S authorities' patronage. The U S embassy denied official support and noted retaliatory rhetoric.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
United States
New York
US S
Walter J. Stoessel Jr
Amtorg
Tass
U.S
Washington
Reilly Granted New Trial in 1973 Murder Case
LITCHFIELD Conn UP I reports judge John A Speziale ordered a new trial for Peter A Reilly 21 after defense unearthed evidence suggesting he did not kill his mother Barbara Gibbons 51 in Falls Village Sept 18 1973 The state may drop charges while State's Attorney John F Bianchi on vacation decides whether to proceed Reilly was convicted of manslaughter in 1974 and later freed on bond Writers Arthur Miller and William Styron aided the case amid national attention The new evidence centers on alibi issues and a suspect Michael Parmalee 20 with a fingerprint found on a rear door of the Gibbons house
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Litchfield
Conn
UPI
Peter A. Reilly
Superior Court
John A. Speziale
Reilly
Speziale
Barbara Gibbons
Falls Village
John F. Bianchi
Caribbean
Arthur Miller
William Styron
T.F. Gilroy Daly
Daly
Litchfield County
Housatonic Valley Regional High School
Canaan
Gibbons
Michael Parmalee
Roxbury, Conn
Joan Barthel
Styron
New Times Magazine
Peter
Stryon
United Press International
Ms. Barthel
New Times
Roxbury
Miller
Mike Nichols
Arthur
New York Times
John Corry
Barthel
Mike Wallace
CBS
60 Minutes
Chicago
Daniel Schorr
Schorr
Village Voice
New York City
House Ethics Committee
The
Voice
Massachusetts congressman urges New England development bank plan
Rep. Michael Harrington of Massachusetts called at a regional economic conference for a New England regional capital development bank to aid small firms. He argued many small firms lack internal capital, risk losing plants or closing without low-cost credit, and proposed a $2 billion federal investment to seed quasi-public banks with up to $5 million for eligible small and medium businesses.
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Durham
N.H
UPI
Michael Harrington
D-Mass
New England
Harrington
Retrial credited to New Times writer Joan Barthel
William Styron credits Joan Barthel for triggering the retrial of Peter A. Reilly in the 1973 slaying of his mother Barbara Gibbons. Styron said Barthel's New Times article and his own advocacy drew national attention, with Miller, Nichols, and others supporting the case.
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New Times
Teamsters vote on national freight contract in Chicago
Negotiators eye off a possible nationwide strike as Teamsters vote this weekend on a 39 month wage proposal offering about 20 percent versus the union demand of 30 percent. With 400,000 truckers and warehousemen in the line, workers face a March 31 contract expiry and a potential strike authorization if talks fail.
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Chicago
UPI
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmon
Retarded Marine recruit dies after training injuries
Lynn McClure 20, with a history of mental illness and no stable home, enlisted in the Marine Corps after earlier troubles. He suffered fatal head injuries during a training incident and died March 13 in Houston. An autopsy awaited toxicology results. Representative Charles Wilson investigates recruitment practices.
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Tex
UPI
Lynn McClure
Texas
McClure
Marine Corps
San Diego
Calif
Hubert Calhoun
Marines
Calhoun
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Pepsodent
eAware
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Casa Rosada
Isabel Peron
Sandra Ashner
Parmalee
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New England Development Bank
S. Vietnam
Vietnam
State Department
Robert L. Funseth
Hanoi
Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
Banner Publishing Corp
New York Times News Co
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
Vermont
Bennington’s Health Food Center
North Street
Frankfurts ‘Swifts
Walker
Sianver
Richard Widmark
Warren
Philip Roth
Portnoy
Renata Adler
Teamster
Williamstown
Williams Inn
Charles Wilson
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Ernest H. Javery
South Street
Alan H. Page
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