Seventeen Charged in Plot to Sell Arms to Iran
Seventeen people including a retired Israeli general and a London lawyer were charged with conspiring to sell Iran more than 2 billion dollars in U.S. weapons. Five were arrested in Bermuda, four in New York, eight at large. Prosecutors described five conspiracies with Cyrus Hashimi named as Iran buyer and Samuel Evans as central link.
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Iran
U.S
Bermuda
Iraq
Samuel Evans
Rudolph Giuliani
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Giuliani
Cyrus Hashimi
Hashimi
Florida Vet Executed in Stress Defense Stabbing Case
Vietnam veteran David Livingston Funchess, 39, executed in Florida’s electric chair after a 14 year gap between the Dec 16 1974 robbery killings of Anna Waldrop and Clayton Ragan and his death. He had argued war triggered PTSD. The Supreme Court denied a stay and he died at 4:11 p.m. CST.
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Daughters of Funchess
Madge Stewart
Clayton Ragan
Funchess
Jacksonville
Betti Shupe
Anna Waldrop
Waldrop
Ragan
Atlanta
Washington
Peter Erlinder
William Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul
Minn
Vietnam
Alexandra township leaders quit as violence flares
The last four town councilors in Alexandra resigned Tuesday saying their hopes for rebuilding the community were shattered by anti apartheid violence. Within hours rioting broke out in the shantytown and at least five people were killed.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Alexandra
South African Press Association
Prison uprising quelled at Indiana State Prison
In Michigan City Indiana authorities used concussion bombs and warning shots to subdue inmates who held four guards, plus three other staff, hostage for five hours. Four guards, two rescuers, and two inmates were injured.
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Ind
Indiana State
Nevada test detonates huge nuclear device near Las Vegas
A nuclear weapon nearly 12 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb was detonated in the Nevada desert at dawn. Three anti nuclear protesters were arrested and Greenpeace said four others were on the site at the time.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada Desert
Greenpeace
Rebels surround rebel base in southeastern Afghanistan
Thousands of Soviet and Afghan troops ringed a key Muslim rebel base in southeastern Afghanistan as guerrilla commanders reported heavy losses from air raids and artillery.
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Islamabad
Pakistan
Afghanistan
House boosts limit on outside income
The House approved a 7510 increase to outside earnings limits matching the Senate at 40 percent of a member's income. With salaries of 75100, members may keep 30040 from outside work, up from 22530. The vote followed a familiar unani mous consent procedure, attracting little attendance and sparking concerns about fairness and public perception.
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Washington
House
Senate
John Murtha
D-Pa
Robert Walker
R-Pa
Robert Garcia
New York
Congress
Supreme Court limits proof needed to seize obscene material
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that police need not show a higher standard of probable cause to secure warrants for seizing allegedly obscene films or books, aligning obscenity searches with those for drugs or weapons. The decision allows use of seized videocassettes from Network Video in DePew, N.Y., as evidence. Justices Marshall Brennan and Stevens dissented.
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Supreme Court
Alabama Supreme Court
T. Eric Embry
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American College of Physicians
Annals of Internal Medicine
Washington State
DePew
N.Y
Rehnquist
New York
Thurgood Marshall
William Brennan
John Paul Stevens
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