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David Aaron, deputy assistant of the National Security Council, settled these weighty matters by flipping a coin with Counselor Alexander Bessmertnykh of the Soviet embassy in Washington. The coin: a U.S. quarter. "Eagles," called the Russian. Eagles it wasn't. So the first day's business meetings and dinner will be held at the U.S. embassy...
...flip a coin on whether we succeed...it's iffy," he added...
...informant's tip, police went to an apartment in Coral Gables and arrested a suspect: William McFarlan, 23, a 170-lb., 5-ft. 6-in. freshman law student at the University of Miami, who was charged with grand theft and burglary. Police are now searching for a missing coin collection worth...
Droney said that about a month ago he met with Delahunt and Barry Haight, attorney for Carl R. Dickson, one of three men sentenced for the coin robbery, to try to determine the hiding place of the missing coins...
Barbara Burrell, a numismatics expert responsible for the coin collection in 1973 and a Harvard graduate student, said yesterday that the coins had been valued at $2 million during the 1974 trial. But she said the coins' exact value is impossible to estimate as economic and social relics, and as works...