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Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, no stranger to the gambling tables, took the risky course of allowing his second trial on racketeering and fraud charges to go to the jury without presenting a defense. On Saturday afternoon the Governor won big. The jury found Edwards and four other defendants innocent of all charges, which were connected to a hospital-investment scheme that had netted the flamboyant Governor $1.9 million between his second and third terms. Said a jubilant Edwards: "I feel vindicated...
Even if Casey persists, the final say on prosecution belongs to Attorney General Edwin Meese. At the moment, Justice Department lawyers are cool to the idea. "We're not hot to trot on this thing," says one Justice official. That lack of enthusiasm is mirrored on Capitol Hill by lawmakers who deal regularly with the CIA. Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence: "When you go after press organizations, you're treating the symptoms rather than the problem...
...coal-black night in March, the kind astronomers like best. At Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, Princeton Astrophysicist Edwin Turner pointed the 158-in. reflecting telescope first at one distant pinpoint of light in the sky, then at a neighboring one. A few hours later, studying the results of his night's labors, Turner could hardly believe his eyes. "It was a big surprise," he says. "But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something...
Admission to the public affairs Forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday, May 20, for the address by Attorney General Edwin Meese, and on Thursday, May 22, for the address by Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker, will be by ticket only. Tickets--one per person--will be distributed to bearers of valid Harvard ID card at the Harvard Information Center in Holyoke Center beginning at 9 a.m., Monday, May 19. No one will be admitted to the Forum without a ticket...
...Wynn Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Middle East: Dean Fischer Cairo: John Borrell Bahrain: Barry Hillenbrand Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: James Willwerth Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Sandra Burton, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Edwin M. Reingold, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Canada: Peter Stoler, Ed Ogle Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: Harry Kelly, Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott...