Solar Polar Mission Plans Double Spacecraft Venture
American and European scientists plan a two craft solar polar mission to observe the sun from above and below the ecliptic plane. The project would launch from a space shuttle in 1983 with Jupiter gravity assists to reach 1.3 AU and study convection, coronal holes, solar wind, and sunspots over about four and a half years.
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NY Times
Pasadena
Calif
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
European Space Agency
United States
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA
Earth
Jupiter
Pioneer 11
Saturn
Mariner 10
Venus
Mercury
Eric E. Suggs
Suggs
Skylab
Brothers flee Nevada prison in armed car escape
Michael Ray Watson and John Richard Thomas broke through a wire fence near a guard tower at Nevada State Prison in Carson City during a 7 45 p m escape. Both men are considered extremely dangerous by Metro Police. Watson is the brother of Wendy Hanley an alleged accessory in the Bramlet murder.
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Las Vegas
Nevada State
Carson City
Michael Ray Watson
John Richard Thomas
Watson
Wendy Colleen Watson Hanley
Culinary Union
al Bramlet
Tom Hanley
Andy Gramby Hanley
Bramlet
Thomas
Chuck Wolff
al Loar
Loar
Metro
Jay
Paradise Road
Wendy Hanley
Detroit Mob Boss Zerilli Dies at 79 in Suburban Hospital
Joseph Zerilli known as Mr. Joe and last of Detroit Prohibition era mob chiefs died aged 79 in a Grosse Pointe hospital after a long illness. He faced an arrest record in a 1935 inquiry and had retired briefly before being pulled back into activity in 1975 due to his son Anthony J.'s Las Vegas casino bid.
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Zerilli
East Side
Anthony J
Las Vegas
Gunman robs, abducts in Las Vegas motel incident
A gunman held four vice workers and a customer at a Motel 6 on East Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas. He robbed them of about $400 and injured one woman before taking the customer in his car trunk and threatening to abandon them in the desert. Police described the suspect as a white male, 20 to 22 years old.
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Las Vegas
Metro
Aladdin
E. Tropicana Ave
Tropicana Avenue
Mullen Trial Exposes Nevada Bondsmen and Bounty Hunters
The Mullen trial reveals how bail bondsmen hire bounty hunters and skip tracers to locate fugitives. Testimony shows practices across Nevada, including licensed and non licensed workers, and the political influence of bond interests on judges and legislators.
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SUN
L.J. Heenan
Heenan
Federal Public Defender
United States
U.S. District Court
E Robert Mullen
Mullen
Mike Dyer
Nevada
Bill Embry
Los Angeles
Embry
Las Vegas
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Detroit
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Joey Adams
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Bridgesteeneenerene
Sage
Ralph Pearl Peeenenee
Thosteson
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