Veteran receives apology over mistaken desertion arrest
Public apology from Senator and Pentagon response follow a case involving Sgt. Roque Vela of Laredo Texas. Vela a Vietnam veteran with a Purple Heart and Army Commendation Medal was wrongly arrested at a birthday party while 37 years in service. The Army had not kept records current and desertion charges were being prepared before the error was corrected.
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John
Tower
Pentagon
Roque Vela
Laredo
Texas
Vietnam
Army
Women’s Court Exercise Classes Led by Justice O’Connor
The Supreme Court offers brisk sign ups for daily early morning exercises for women employees. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s clerk circulated a memo inviting women to join, with YMCA supervision, starting Monday. Classes will be in the court’s small gymnasium once dubbed “the highest court in the land.”
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Washington
Supreme Court
Sandra Day O’connor
Deborah Merritt
Byron White
Mailer Wife Evicted From Cape Cod Home Over Tax Rift
Beverly Mailer 51, estranged wife of novelist Norman Mailer, was evicted from the Cape Cod house they shared for 17 years. She says Mailer gave her the residence in 1966 but kept title in his name and later signed it over to the IRS to cover back taxes.
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Boston
Beverly Mailer
Norman Mailer
Cape Cod
Mailer
Internal Revenue Service
Man Sues Over Women-Only Commission Plan
SERE feminist Howard Goldberg of Santa Monica files suit in Superior Court arguing the 25 seat Commission on the Status of Women barred to men violates civil rights. He seeks to halt formation until council changes rules, claiming discrimination.
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Calif
Howard Goldberg
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Bundy wife pregnant says it is nobody's business
Mrs Bundy, wife of death row inmate Theodore Bundy, says she is pregnant and plans for the child due this fall. She described how she and Bundy maintained contact during his imprisonment at Florida State Prison where visits occur in a guarded park near the prison.
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Fla
Theodore Bundy
Bundy
Florida
Florida State Prison
Orlando
Carole Bundy
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