World Spotlight Reports Drug Fight Backlash and Politics
A multi item digest: Tris treated sleepwear reappears despite a ban. Carter with Budget Director Lance, withholding strong support amid financial probes. bids reopen on a Texas computer contract. a 5th Circuit ruling allows antitrust suit against Blue Cross Blue Shield. Salinas faces potential 210 year prison verdict in a bank theft case. Texas Airlines seeks extended peanuts fares to four more airports. Fortenberry sentenced for capital murder of Sheriff Wilson. beef checkoff discussions continue in College Station. Southwestern Bell exec Ashley linked to threats. cycling ticket under Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code. bumper grain crop expected as storage expands. PLO claims repulsed Israeli tank attacks in Lebanon.
Manhunt Case Opens as Berkowitz Faces Courtroom Tests
In New York a psychiatrist begins evaluating David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam suspect. Berkowitz, a Bronx postal clerk and Army veteran, sits in a Kings County Hospital room after judges ordered mental competency tests amid a sprawling citywide investigation into six killings and seven wounds tied to a voice named Sam. Police note his strange claims and a detailed blow-by-blow account of the year long spree, while friends report a transformation after Korea and LSD use.
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Henrietta Leith
Associated Press
NEW York
Sam
David Berkowitz
Korea
Bronx
Kings County Hospital
Brooklyn
Tam
Richard Brown
Brooklyn Criminal Court
Berkowitz
Daily News
Lerkowitz
New York City
Queens
Violante
Miss Moskowitz
Miss Moscowitz
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Department of Correction
Yonkers
N.Y
Carter studies Panama pact to win ratification
President Carter dedicates a day to reviewing the Panama Canal treaty text, aims to persuade Congress and the public of its safety and benefits, and notes strong support from Ambassadors Bunker and Linowitz. Officials from State and Defense back the agreement as Joint Chiefs endorse it for ratification.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
White House
Jody Powell
Ellsworth Bunker
Sol Linowitz
Departments of State and Defense
Bunker
Linowitz
Panama
Cabinet
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
Harold Brown
Warren Christopher
David C. Jones
Air Force
Joint Chiefs
Mystery man in Paraguay may be Roschmann the Butcher of Riga
Asuncion police morgue holds a mystery man's body with officials in West Germany seeking positive ID. If confirmed as Eduard Roschmann, the Nazi war criminal linked to Riga killings, this ends a 30 year hunt for the fugitive known as the Butcher of Riga.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Eduard Roschmann
Riga
South America
Roschmann
Emilio Wolf
Wiesenthal
Jewish Documentation Center
ABC Color
Abc-Color
Federico Wegener
Latvia
Betwen
Odessa
Frederick Forshyth
Germany
Castro offers to let 80 Americans leave Cuba with families
President Fidel Castro signals possible improvement in U S Cuba ties by allowing about 80 American citizens living in Cuba to depart with Cuban families while rejecting a U S request to release seven Americans jailed on espionage and counter-revolutionary charges. Sen Frank Church, after four day Cuban visit, says Castro asked nothing and hopes U S response would advance relations and perhaps lift the embargo and restore full diplomatic ties.
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Washington
Fidel Castro
U.S
Frank Church
Church
Offshore
Castro
Idaho
United States
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Tris
S. John Byington
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Lance
Grace
Bert Lance
Boston
Texas
Dukakis
Human Services
Jerald Stevens
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Electronic Data Systems of
Dallas
Blue Cross
New Orleans
San Antonio
Tex
Texas Blue Cross-Blue Shield Health Insurance Group
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Blue Cross-Blue Shield Group
Pharmacies
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Salinas
U.S. District Court
Enrique Salinas
Citizens State Bank of
Carrizo Springs
Houston
Texas International Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Beaumont-Port Arthur
Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
Plainview
Motley County
Jinks Wilson
Larry C. Fortenberry
Wilson
Matador
Beef Task Force
College Station
Texas A&m
Ernest Davis
Ashley
Bell
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
James Ashley
C.L. Todd
Southwestern Bell
T.O. Gravitt
Philadelphia
Barry Laessig
Laessig
Pennsylvania
PLO
Beirut
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yarine
the Devil
Sam Carr
Carr
Violantes
Atty
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Moscowitz
Brown
Riverdale
Voice
Suffolk County
Island
Rega
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