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Such disclosures are often called leaks, but to a Government plagued by spy scandals, Morison's action was a crime. The Reagan Administration used the Espionage Act of 1917 to charge its employee with spying. Although the Soviet Union had already obtained a stolen manual for the KH-11 satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison...
Moloise had been convicted two years ago of murdering a black policeman. The victim, Warrant Officer Philippus Selepe, 52, was slain with an automatic weapon outside his home near Pretoria in 1982. Moloise at first confessed to the crime but later recanted, charging police coercion. Later he said he had been involved in planning the ambush, but only because he was afraid that his associates in the African National Congress would kill him if he did not cooperate. The A.N.C., for its part, has insisted that its guerrillas, not Moloise, committed the murder. Moloise was, however, a firm supporter...
...case involving charges by a junior faculty member and a graduate student that a professor in the government department harassed them drew widespread campus attention. And while their charges were upheld, many felt the treatment of the issue was insensitive and no one felt sure the punishment matched the crime...
...There have been incidents where policemen have not helped crime victims because they were frightened of AIDS," said Russell "AIDS is becoming a central issue in the whole community." He recommended the establishment of an AIDS task force for the education of city employees...
...most Frenchmen, it has become increasingly difficult to know exactly where the Socialists stand on issues. After a vigorous campaign to abolish the ! death penalty and expand prisoners' rights, the party was forced by rising crime rates to back away from such liberalizations. Plagued by two-digit inflation in 1982, Mitterrand put pragmatism before ideology and turned from big-spending policies to belt-tightening austerity. Although it champions self-determination in Third World nations, the government has moved cautiously in meeting the demands of separatists in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Last year Mitterrand replaced Premier Pierre Mauroy...