Love triangle murder lands ex pilot in prison
A former Eastern Airlines pilot, Gerald Russell, 39, faces life in prison after a Miami jury convicted him of first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Eastern pilot Lance Christian Anderson. Prosecutors said Russell waited outside Andersons home in a ski mask and shot him. Anderson steered a truck 12 blocks before crashing into a pole. The victim’s wife testified against Russell during the trial.
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Miami
UPI
Eastern Airlines
Gerald Russell
Russell
Eastern
Lance Christian Anderson
Anderson
Kathy
Joel Hirschhorn
Hirschhorn
Seduction damages awarded in California psychiatrist case
A 30-year-old woman received 89,150 from a jury after claiming psychiatrist George Prastka seduced her and supplied drugs during her ten year patient relationship. The case noted the affair began after their professional ties ended and Prastka had surrendered his license in 1980 for Medi Cal fraud and prescribing Quaalude after she was no longer his patient.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Audrey Chanley
George Prastka
Superior Court
Ms. Chanley
Robert Schwartz
Dr. Prastka
Schwartz
Prastka
Newport Beach
State Bureau of Medical Quality Assurance
Orange County Register
Hinckley-type arrest after weapons seized at YMCA
Knoxville police described Michael G. King as a John Hinckley-type after finding a cache of rifles explosives and computer gear in two YMCA rooms. Officers recovered a .30 caliber rifle notes of stolen gadgetry a wedding album with a single Suzanne Somers photo and dangerous blasting components. The bomb squad seized 30 to 40 dynamite blasting caps and various acids.
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Knoxville
King
John Hinckley
Eddie Irwin
Irwin
Miss Somers
Man in stolen Firebird to face hearing in Michigan
Harold Wyatt Jr., 24, held on 3500 bond after arriving at Walled Lake District Court on a stolen car charge and driving off in a hybrid Firebird. Front end and engine from other cars identified. Wyatt to undergo July 29 preliminary exam in Walled Lake. Beep the goose to get artificial beak refit due to scar tissue. date pending. Beep’s beak was damaged when a coyote attacked the owner’s menagerie. live TV coverage of the surgery occurred.
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Liedke
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Larry Day
Grand Avenue Pet Hospital
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USAF Joins Honduran Training Exercise in Nicaragua Border Area
U S Air Force pilots deliver communications gear to Honduran troops in a three day Combined Movement drill near Gracias a Dios seeking to bolster defense against a possible Nicaraguan invasion. Pentagon says operation tests movement control and communications with no combat implied. Nicaragua protests saying the planes violate peace proposals.
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Tegucigalpa
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Nicaragua
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Mark Foutch
U.S. Air Force
Gracias A Dios
Foutch
Air Force
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Combined Movement
Foreign Ministry
Puerto Lempira
Zelaya
Honduran
Bushes brother vows Sept primary against Weicker in Connecticut
In Hartford, Prescott Bush Jr. won 35 percent at the Republican State Convention and pledged to force a September primary against Sen. Lowell Weicker, who led the roll call with 609 votes of 933. Former Senate leader Lewis Rome won the gubernatorial endorsement on a first ballot amid delegate shifts. Richard Bozzuto weighed forcing a Rome vs ONeill showdown.
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Conn
UPI
Lowell Weicker
GOP
George Bush
Prescott Bush Jr
Weicker
Bush
Lewis Rome
Senate
Richard Bozzuto
Rome
William O’neill
Ella Grasso
Richard Nixon
Missing Colorado professor. relatives seek aid
The family of UC Denver economics professor Nicholas Schrock, missing in Mexico since May 30, appealed to President Reagan and Mexican President Lopez Portillo for help. Relatives sent telegrams seeking bilateral cooperation while Mexican prosecutor Chavez Castro keeps seven San Ignacio policemen in custody, claiming they confessed to the killing though the body sent to Colorado was not Schrock’s.
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Boulder, Colo
University of Colorado
Mexico
Reagan
Jose Lopez Portillo
Ruth Schrock
Nicholas Schrock
Schreck
Highway 15
San Ignacio
Schrock
Jorge Chavez Castro
Colorado
Weather snapshot with sun and warm high near eighty
Forecast sunny and warm today with a high near 80. Tonight and tomorrow bring partly cloudy skies then likely thunderstorms and fog along the Southeast. Gulf Coast sees heavy rain, while Colorado reports record heat and prison dormitory lockdowns amid violence. National Sports Festival kicks off in Indianapolis with 12 sports present.
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United Press International
Gulf Coast
Florida
South Carolina
South
Colorado
Indianapolis
Pensacola
Fla
Columbia
S.C
Miami
Syria strikes Israeli jets as pilot killed in Lebanon clash
The Associated Press reports Israeli jets hit the PLO stronghold in west Beirut for a third day. A F-4 Phantom was shot down by a Syrian missile over the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. one pilot was captured and the other was found dead. US envoy Habib met Egyptian officials seeking asylum for up to 8,000 PLO guerrillas in Beirut while Egypt urged Israeli withdrawal and a peaceful solution. The Israeli command confirmed the loss of the Phantom and destruction of Syrian SAM batteries, stating Syria moved modern missiles into Lebanon.
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Associated Press
Palestine Liberation Organization
West Beirut
Lebanon
Bekaa Valley
Syria
Cairo
U.S
Philip C. Habib
PLO
Habib
Kamal Hassan Aly
Egypt
Middle East
Israel
Mubarak Habib
Hosni Mubarak
Bekaa
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