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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1987
Page
5
A military jury at Quantico sentenced Sgt. Clayton Lonetree to 30 years in prison and a $5,000 fine for 13 espionage counts. He will be eligible for parole in 10 years and will receive a dishonorable discharge with no pay or benefits. Defense lawyers promised an appeal.
President Reagan in Santa Barbara announces an interagency task force to study ways to help American couples adopt children. He frames it as part of an anti abortion drive and says the report should be ready before Thanksgiving. Critics warn the move could intimidate pregnant women seeking unplanned pregnancies.
A U.S. official says the Reagan administration will ease demands for on site and surprise inspections of nuclear missile facilities to fence off sensitive production areas from Soviet observers in Geneva. Negotiations continue with Maynard Glitman and team as another round begins today.
Bayard Rustin, longtime civil rights advocate and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, died at Lenox Hill Hospital at 75 after surgery for a ruptured appendix. Coretta Scott King praised his enduring legacy as a key ally to her husband and the movement. Norman Hill of the A. Philip Randolph Institute confirmed the death.
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