Spy case widens as Walker espionage ties grow
A retired Navy specialist began spying for the Soviets in 1966 while aboard the submarine Simon Bolivar, with his son Michael charged for aiding the effort. The FBI expects more arrests as a Soviet diplomat is recalled. Walker relinquished classified Navy documents at a rural drop site near Washington.
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Washington
Navy
Soviet Union
U.S
John Anthony Walker Jr
Walker
U.ss
State Department
FBI
Norfolk, Va
Wellington supt studio cleared in monkey yearbook libel suit
Lorain County judge granted summary judgments for Lifetouch studio and Wellington schools superintendent James McGlamery, dismissing two primary defendants from a $2 million libel suit over a 1982-83 memory book image of Ratliff as a monkey. The amended suit and a countersuit remain unresolved.
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Elyria
Wellington
Ayers Ratliff
McCormick Middle School
James McGlamery
National School Studios
Ratliff
Lorain County Common Pleas Court
Floyd D. Harris
Studio
Lifetouch — and
McGlamery
Michael Loughman
Dick McKenzie
Wellington Enterprise
Corridor plan advances on Lorain north-south route study
Lorain County Planning Commission pushes ahead with a study of a north-south corridor linking Lorain to I-480 to create a feeder to I-71. Three alternate routes are sought for state review, with the original four-lane route evaluated for cost and bridges. Warner & Associates engineers lead the project, estimated over 40 million dollars. Governor Celeste and ODOT officials discussed routing on Governors Day.
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Elyria
Lorain
Interstate 480
Lorain County
John Hall
Ohio Department of Transportation
Richard F. Celeste
Middle Ridge Road
West Ridge Road
Carlisle Township
Ohio Turnpike
North Ridgeville
West Salem
Holl
Warner & Associates of
Hall
Celeste
Weather cues and weekend outlook
A weekend forecast notes tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 50. Saturday brings partly cloudy skies with a high near 79 and a slightly cooler lake effect. Rain chances are around 20 percent tonight and Saturday. Details on Page A-3.
Sellers' widow awarded 1 million by London High Court
Lynn Frederick, widow of Peter Sellers, receives 1 million pounds after the High Court in London rules the film Trail of the Pink Panther insulted her husband’s memory. The 1982 release used discarded clips from earlier Pink Panther films.
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Lynn Frederick
Peter Sellers
High Court
London
Pink Panther
Sellers
Gumina to buy LRD Building in Lorain for $3.6 million
Lorain developer Carl Gumina announced plans to buy the LRD Building at Broadway and West Erie Avenue and link it to a new 22,000 square foot second building with a walkway. A parking garage is planned on city land, total parking to about 300 cars, with Ohio Employment Service moving into the new structure and possible new jobs.
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Lorain
LRD
Carl Gumina
Gumina
Broadway
West
Erie Avenue
21St Street
Gamia
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Simon Bolivar
Holly Soares
Oberlin College
Union Street
Gene Krebs
John Walker
Michael
Bolivar
Harris
J.C. Ratliff
Debbie Courtright
C-T
ABC
Rick Mears
Sam Grilli
Grilli
Fred McGonagle
Columbus
Citizen Journal
McGunagle
Chronicle-Telegram
LRD Building
Linn Grossman
Ohio Employment Service
Gamma
al Andrews
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