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Wilson will take over just as Judge Arthur Garrity Jr. prepares to relinquish the tight federal-court control of Boston's schools that he imposed eleven years ago to effect his sweeping desegregation plan. In Rochester, Wilson boosted student test scores and reduced absenteeism, while trimming $8 million from the budget. When fistfights broke out at school basketball games, he won plaudits by banning spectators for three weeks. In his application letter for the Boston job, Wilson called himself "the most qualified urban educator in the U.S." Now he will have a chance to prove it. High school illiteracy...
...scope of the ring's activities became clearer in court actions on both coasts. In San Francisco, a federal grand jury produced a new and more specific indictment against Jerry Whitworth, 46, a retired Navy chief radioman, who allegedly supplied the most valuable information. In Norfolk, Va., Arthur Walker, 50, was found guilty of conspiring with his brother John to sell secrets to the Soviets. John Walker, 48, also a former Navy chief radioman and the alleged ringleader, is scheduled to go on trial for espionage in Baltimore on Oct. 28. John's son, Michael, 22, a former Navy seaman...
After a four-day trial without a jury, Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. needed just 15 minutes to pronounce Arthur Walker, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, guilty of espionage. He faces a maximum sentence of three life terms and a fine of $40,000. The defense called no witnesses. Meek, stooped and without his usual toupee, Walker looked more like an accountant than a spy. His lawyers tried to portray him as an innocent dupe of his aggressive younger brother. One of them told reporters, "He may have been...
...Arthur, however, had described his espionage activities to the FBI after his arrest, waiving his right to have a lawyer present. As related in court, he said John had begun his contacts with the KGB in a simple way: "He drove to Washington and parked down from the Russian embassy for a couple of nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside...
...John's urging, Arthur said, that he got a job at VSE, a defense contractor in Chesapeake, Va., involved in ship maintenance, where he had access to classified material. He passed two documents to John and got $6,000 for each, he said. "It was my happy-hour money," he explained. "I bought some stuff ... a gas grill, a new hair piece, brakes...