Potts death watch tightens before Georgia chair execution
State troopers ring Georgia State Prison as Jack Potts faces execution by electric chair in two days. The 35 year old killer, in deathwatch cell near the chair, rejects lawyers while awaiting 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT Thursday. He has apologized and says he is tired of prison.
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Reidsville
UPI
Jack Potts
Georgia State Prison
Death
Potts
Georgia
United States
Gary Gilmore
Utah
Michael Priest
Daytona Beach
Fla
Venus radar helps solve Mayan mystery
NASA and the Defense Department radar study of Venus has yielded clear images of Guatemala and Belize showing an extensive network of Mayan drainage canals dating 250 B.C. to 900 A.D. The canals likely drained swampy jungle to create dry plots for maize and cacao, supporting a denser agricultural base for the Maya.
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NASA
Central America
Venus
Washington
UPI
National Aeronantics and Space Administration
Guatemala
Belize
Richard E. W. Adams
University of Cambridge
England
The
Space Agency
Adams
Defense Department
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
USSR resupply space mission heads home
A Russian Hungarian space team plans return from the Salyut 6 complex after swapping capsules with Soyuz 35. Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas prepare to separate from the orbital lab, ending a mission that aimed for an endurance record and involved the other cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin.
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Moscow
UPI
Valery Kubasov
Bertalan Farkas
Salyut-6
Radio Moscow
Leonid Popov
Valery Ryumin
Earth
Farkas
Soviet Union
India
France
Kubasov
Fopov
Ryumin
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