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...five men strolled so casually toward their getaway car that the tower guard assumed they were departing visitors. But on the next day the fugitives' car had a flat tire. Marine Sergeant John F. Lyons, 24, heading from his home in Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...biggest man hunts in Arizona's history pursued the murderous Tison family, and police set up a roadblock near Tison's home town of Casa Grande, Ariz. Soon, a silver van slowed at the signal from police, then sped on with a blast of gunfire from its windows. Five miles down the road, alerted deputies at another roadblock fired at the passing vehicle, killing Donald Tison. After a half-hour gun battle his two brothers and Greenawalt surrendered. The father, Gary, fled into the desert...
Many lawyers and prosecutors defend plea bargaining as "flexible," claiming that bargaining can shape the sentence to the individual defendant. What is more, says Maricopa County (Ariz.) Attorney Charles Hyder, it is "the greatest weapon a prosecutor has. The prosecutor is in the driver's seat. Usually the defendant is not aware of any weaknesses in a case...
...summer has been a whirlwind tour of the U.S. with a small army of technicians and groupies, to showcase a grab bag of gritty songs from a sizzling new album, Some Girls. On most of their dates, the Stones have rolled around ever-devilish Mick Jagger. But in Tucson, Ariz., the group added a bit of Sunbelt beauty to its act. Announced Jagger: "Now we're going to have a hometown girl sing with us and give her a chance." As any frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest was Linda Ronstadt...
While Astronomer James Christy was examining photographic plates of Pluto last June-taken with the U.S. Naval Observatory's 155-cm (61-in.) reflecting telescope at Flagstaff, Ariz.-he noticed an elongation in Pluto's image. Checking back on photographs made in 1965 and 1970, Christy found similar stretching, always in a north-south direction relative to the earth. After further measurements, Christy and his colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, concluded that what they were seeing was actually a moon hi a 19,300-km (12,000-mile-high) orbit around Pluto. The great distance from the earth...