Mental patient admits killing four teens in Anchorage
Police said 34 year old Charles Mead III, an outpatient and psychiatric patient, confessed to shooting four teens at Russian Jack Springs Park while stealing stereo tapes. Arraignment set for May 11. bail raised to four million dollars. Mead jailed at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Charles L. Mead III
Alaska Psychiatric Institute
Mead
Brian Porter
Porter
Meach
Russian Jack Springs Park
Joseph Kimler
Jay Sylvester
Tahlequa Tigers Tromp to Top at Enid Drumroll Contest
At the 50th Tri-State Music Festival in Enid Oklahoma Patrick Fioravanti of the Tahlequa Tigers Marching Band showed bold hands on a head move as competitors vied for judges favor in the drumroll event.
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Enid
Okla
Patrick Fioravanti
Tahlequa Tigers
Playboy cop suspended not fired in Ohio case
Springfield officials overruled a police board to dismiss Barbara Schantz and suspended her 37 working days starting April 23. She dropped a $1 million federal suit and issued an apology while insisting posing was not wrong. Doug Radhel received five days without pay.
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Thomas Bay
Police Board of Review
Schantz
Ms. Schantz
Beauty and the Badge
Playboy
Doug Radhel
Reagan prayer plan divisive plan faces probable House defeat
A key congressman called President Reagan's voluntary public school prayer amendment divisive and likely to fail in the House. Rep. Don Edwards said most of his Judiciary Constitution subcommittee opposes it and hearings are uncertain. The issue is viewed as diversionary and splitting religious groups.
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Washington
UPI
Reagan
House
Don Edwards
D-Calif
Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee
Edwards
Robert Kastenmeier
D-Wis
Edwards’ Constitution
Congress
William French Smith
Dense Pack MX basing plan heats up missile dispute
The Air Force and Pentagon research office conditionally approve Dense Pack basing for the MX missile. The plan envisions tightly spaced silos and possible rotation of 40 to 50 missiles to 100 silos, amid SALT II compliance questions and fratricide fears. Meanwhile Chicago probes continue into alleged misuse of as much as $1 million in Archdiocese funds despite Cardinal Cody’s death.
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Washington
Air Force
Pentagon Research Office
Pentagon
United States
Chicago
Cardinal John Cody
Chicago Sun-Times
U.S
Dan Webb
Helen Dolan Wilson
Cody
David
Jeremy Margolis
Sun-Times
Atlanta lawyer jailed in bribery scheme tied to judge
William Borders of Atlanta was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 35000 for acting as a go-between in a bribery plot involving former college roommate U S District Judge Alice Hastings of Miami. The scheme aimed to reduce sentences for racketeers Florida Frank and Thomas Romano and reclaim 12 million dollars in seized assets. Hastings' trial is pending.
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Atlanta
Washington
William Borders
Florida
Borders
U.S
Alice Hastings
Miami
Florida Frank and
Thomas Romano
Hastings
Israeli Police Wound Six Druse Arabs. Golan Riots Erupt
Israeli police shot and wounded six Druse Arabs in the annexed Golan Heights after a tractor stop led to clashes with hundreds of villagers. Police fired when the crowd refused to disperse. In Jerusalem, Alan Harry Goodman was formally charged with murder for Easter Sunday killings at the Dome of the Rock.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Golan Heights
Alan Harry Goodman
Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem
Hinckley note bolsters defense at Reagan shooting trial
The note written in December 1980 by John Hinckley criticizes America and Ronald Reagan as he expresses despair after Lennon's death. Defense argues the writings show severe mood illness and lack of intent, with the note found in his Colorado home.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
John Lennon
John Hinckley
America
Reagan
Hinckley
Ronald Reagan
Lennon
New York
Hinc
Von Bulow given 30 year term in insulin murder case
In Newport Rhode Island judge Thomas Needham sentences Claus von Bulow to 30 years for twice trying to kill his heiress wife Martha Sunny von Bulow with insulin injections. He may remain free on 1 million bail during appeal while reporting to Cranston’s prison next Friday.
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R.I
Claus von Bulow
Thomas Needham
Needham
von Bulow
Cran
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