Williams trial witnesses dispute sexual claims as bridge visit planned
Three friends of Wayne Williams testified to counter prosecutors who claimed he hated blacks and was homosexual. They described him as a well meaning man aiding others, while prosecutors seek to connect him to the killings linked to the Chattahoochee River bridge scene. The judge ordered the jury to visit the bridge to assess what occurred there.
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Fighting rages in Hama as Syria accuses U S exaggeration
Western sources say Hama has seen nine days of heavy fighting with up to 1000 rebel casualties. Syria denies American hype while Latakia sees troops sealing off the port city. Reporters barred from access and U S officials cite no harm to Americans. France nationalizes major industries in a historic postwar move. In Warsaw, police trucks march as church leaders plan talks with Solidarity leaders.
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Lech Walesa
Jan Kulaj
Jozef Glemp
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Abscam convictions reinstated for Schwartz and Jannotti
The 3rd U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7 to 2 that a lower court erred in overturning the suspicions in the FBI sting case. It revived the September 6 1980 verdicts finding Schwartz and Jannotti guilty of taking bribes totaling forty thousand dollars.
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Lebanese Armenian immigrant sought in Turkish Consul General murder
Los Angeles police identified Krikor Saliba as a second suspect in the assassination of Kemal Arikan. The 21 year old Pasadena resident is believed to have fired a gun. Hampig Sassounian, 19, also from Pasadena, was arrested hours after two assailants ambushed Arikan’s consular car on Wilshire Boulevard.
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UPI
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Krikor "Koko” Saliba
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Harry” Sassounian
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First American POWs Freed by North Vietnam in 1973
On this date in 1973 the first American prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam with 116 flown from Hanoi to the Philippines marking a pivotal step in the closing phase of the war.
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