Yukking It Up with the Walkers
A reader recalls a conversation about John A. Walker Jr and his family accused of selling submarine secrets to the Russians. The exchange touches on national security, declassification, and the size of the Defense Department’s classified access, with a suggestion to narrow access and tighten clearances.
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Fred
John A. Walker Jr
Walker
Pentagon
Defense Department
United States
Newsweek
Walkers and accomplices discuss spies and capitalists motives
A dialogue between Walkers and an interviewer explores espionage and political loyalties. They debate traitors, money as a motive, and whether the Walkers’ actions maintained balance of power or risked nuclear war. The exchange touches on God, bombs, and how offenders should be treated if convicted.
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America
Soviet Union
Beirut
Iran
Washington
God
Fred
Newsweek
Live Aid Philadelphia concert tickets sell fast at $35
Tickets for the star studded Live Aid famine relief concert went on sale Tuesday with high demand. General admission is 35 dollars and 50 dollar seating. promoters report jammed telephone lines and rapid sales through Ticketron and Teletron outlets for the 15 hour event at JFK Stadium on July 13. An international show in London shares the same date and the Philadelphia event aims to raise 12.5 million dollars for Ethiopian and other African famine victims. Additional artists include Dylan Turner Madonna Beach Boys CSN Page Petty LaBelle Lauper. Two tickets per customer and ninety thousand seats were issued for the Philadelphia venue.
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Philadelphia
Live Aid
Sherry Byers
Electric Factory Concerts
Ticketron
Electric Factory
Mann Music Center
London
Ethiopia
Bill Graham
Philly
Bob Dylan
Tina Turner
Madonna
Ashford & Simpson
the Beach Boys
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Jimmy Page
Tom Petty
Patti LaBelle
Cyndi Lauper
John F. Kennedy Stadium
Juli Hittner
Man offers youths $10 to fetch boat as boy drowns
In Detroit on Belle Isle's Heron Lagoon a man with a radio controlled boat stalled it near shore. He allegedly offered a group of youths $10 to retrieve it, then fled as Kenneth Ray 13 disappeared under the water. Police seek to question the man as homicide investigates potential crime.
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Detroit
Kenneth Ray
Luther Johnson
Ray
Gregory Gaskin
Belle Isle
Davis
Rays
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Delaware County
Nesday
Teletron
New Jersey
Cyndlauper
Sey
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