Judge Denies Release for Accused Spy in Bethesda Case
Federal magistrate cites danger to the community as Edwin G. Moore II, a former CIA agent, remains jailed on charges of attempting to sell government secrets to the Soviet Union. Moore, 56, retired in 1973 after 22 years with the CIA, has a $150000 bond.
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Bethesda, Md
UPI
CIA
Soviet Union
Edwin G. Moore II
U.S
F. Archie Meatyard Jr
Moore
FBI
Bethesda
Washington
King Slayer Offers Story To House Committee
James Earl Ray, serving a 99 year sentence for the King slaying, offers to testify under oath before a House committee on assassinations. He disputes a biographer’s account and notes alleged accomplice claims, while his attorney criticizes committee interview methods at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary.
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King Slayer
Ray
McMillan
Select Committee
The
Washington Star
James H. Lesar
Brushy Mountain
Petros
Tenn
King
Supreme Court
Fauntroy
Portugal
Londons Heathrow
Appeals court pushes settlement in wiretap dispute
A U S Court of Appeals directed President Ford and the Moss subcommittee to seek a settlement over national security wiretap disclosures. The panel urged Judge Gasch to oversee talks and ordered release of FBI letters on domestic taps, with three months to report back.
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Washington
UPI
US. Court of Appeals
Congressional
Congress
U.S
Oliver Gasch
Appeals Court
Harold Leventhal
Gasch
Tion
House Oversight and Investigations
John E Moss
D-Call
White House
Moss
FBI
Leventhal
Justice Department
Subcommittee
Attorney General
Funeral planned Monday for Politico Baskin 84
Baskin longtime Las Vegas political figure and cafe owner known for his Budweiser booth for former alcoholics and as headquarters for the Kind Words Club. Born 1892 in Clarksville Arkansas, he served on city commission and county board, helping launch Clark County’s first manager and recreation director. Survivors include wife Rose daughter Betty Sprauer granddaughter and two sisters Ella Sheaffer Ava Hamilton.
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Main Street
el Cortez
Bob Baskin
Las Vegas Boulevard
Fremont Street
Baskin
Clark County
Clarksville
Ark
Brantly and Drawing Business College
Fort Worth
Texas
Rose
S. 7Th St
Betty Sprauer
Las Vegas
Ella Sheaffer
Seattle
Aih
Ava Hamilton
Sacramento
Calif
Ex-Con Kills Wife and Himself After 40-Hour Standoff
Lafayette Pruitt, 35, released from prison two weeks earlier for kidnapping, fatally shot his estranged wife Marcellous and then killed himself after a 40-hour siege in Los Angeles. Deputies had pleaded for surrender as Pruitt held the woman hostage and demanded food and water. The woman died at Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. Pruitt died of a self-inflicted head wound.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Lafayette Pruitt
Sheriff's
Pruitt
Marcellous
Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital
California Institution For Men
San Luis Obispo
Los Angeles County
Las Vegas Man Among 10 Arrested in Record Pot Bust
A Las Vegas man and nine others were arrested in Ardmore Oklahoma as part of a major drug seizure. Over eight tons of marijuana were confiscated from a DC4 and a Cessna 310 used to smuggle cocaine. The operation involved DEA and Oklahoma agents. Street value pegged at about 12 million dollars.
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Ardmore
Okla
UPI
Las Vegas
Drug Enforcement Administration
Ardmore Air Park
Colombia
South America
Mexico
Oklahoma
Jerry Lee Wilson
DEA
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Thomas Crowe
Donald Stukey
Stukey
National Photographic Interpretation Center
China
National Security Council
Stuney
Agency
Blue Canyon
Sierra
Anthony Lewis
New York Times
George McMillan
Walter E. Fauntroy
District of Columbia
House
Ford
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Informa
Politico Baskin
Lido de Paris
New York
Charlotte A
la Russe
Qardus Hotel and Casino
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