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...Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours, the five-man, seven-woman jury last week sided with the prosecutor's views that greed, not patriotism, had led Wilson to export an M-16 automatic rifle and three pistols from the U.S. to Libya in 1979. It convicted him on seven counts of arranging to transport the guns, samples...
...extremists' attack in the Ankara airport, their first assault on Turkish soil since beginning their crusade, deeply shook the government. Four members of Turkey's five-man junta attended the solemn state funeral for three policemen and the airport manager who had been slaughtered in the action...
...82nd Airborne Division instructors at Fort Bragg, N.C. Many of those troops were pinned down by the rebels in Morazan until the Dragonfly jets forced the guerrillas to abandon their positions. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have been trying to persuade army troops to move in five-man patrols as they comb the countryside. Instead, the Salvadorans travel in vulnerable column formations along main roads. Says a frustrated U.S. aide in San Salvador: "The key to counterinsurgency is employing the same tactics that the guerrillas use: night fighting, small patrols, avoidance of roads and open spaces...
Writing for a five-man majority, Justice Harry Blackmun ruled that Initiative 350's narrow focus on school desegregation effectively denied minority groups the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment...
...small rectangular hearing rooms on the second floor of a Central Square office building, the five-man rent control board conducts its weekly Wednesday night meetings. Two members represent the city's landlords, two represent tenants, the chairman speaks for homeowners, and all serve voluntarily at the pleasure of the city manager, who appointed them...