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...Agca's verbal pyrotechnics were jarring, other courtroom developments hinted of more drama to come. Prosecutor Antonio Marini persuaded the court to seek the questioning of four suspected Turkish terrorists, all under detention elsewhere in Western Europe, in connection with the alleged assassination conspiracy. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, tried to secure diplomatic immunity for two of the three accused Bulgarians. Most important, testimony by a Turkish defendant brought the first public confirmation of Agca's claim that he was only a cog in a wider conspiracy...
...parents, the rash of child-abuse accusations against day-care centers during the past year is having a financial side effect. Insurance companies, which anticipate a wave of costly lawsuits from victims, have started drastically boosting the premiums they charge day-care centers. A neighborhood facility in San Antonio, for example, was abruptly informed by its insurance company earlier this year that the center's $600-a-year policy would be canceled. When the center took out insurance from another company, it cost...
...Pentagon punishments go, the penalties were rather mild. Tiny Alamo Aircraft Supply of San Antonio handed out hams and bottles of whisky to Government employees at Christmas, but the Pentagon last year ruled that those gifts were improper and barred the company from all Defense Department work for three years. Lehman's sanctions were not as strong as those recommended in April by Joseph H. Sherick, the Pentagon's inspector general. He had proposed suspending General Dynamics' top three officers from doing business with the Pentagon...
...Hans Florian, 79, had wheeled his 62-year-old wife Johanna from her room in a Hollywood hospital into a nearby stairwell and shot her in the brain. The woman, who also suffered from Alzheimer's disease, had screamed continually, stopping only when she was heavily sedated. In San Antonio three years ago, Woodrow Wilson Collums, 69, got ten years' probation after pleading guilty in the shooting death of his 72-year-old brother, who lay helpless in a nursing home...
...trade. Ambitious, yes. Once he had revitalized his father's papers, he quickly bought a string of other Australian dailies, then eventually hopscotched to London in 1969, when he acquired the Sunday scandal sheet News of the World, and the U.S. in 1973, when he purchased both the San Antonio Express and News...