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Kerr-McGee found liable...
...jury found Kerr-McGee Corp. negligent in the handling of highly radioactive plutonium because it did not protect Silkwood, a lab technician, from contamination. The jury awarded her three children $10.5 million. She herself was killed mysteriously in 1974 when her car ran off a road as she was on her way to give evidence of the plant's carelessness to a New York Times reporter...
...escape, indeed, proved to be necessary, because some of the Indians had taken the check to a bank in Venezuela and found it to be worthless. Last week, the day after talking to McLemore on the phone, Everitt sent him a note: "If you want to get out of here alive, be ready to go at 5 o'clock." Everitt then sent word to the Indians that he would hand over $100,000 in ransom in return for McLemore. The Colombian army was alerted, and all parties proceeded to the rendezvous in the remote town of Maicao...
...Iran's revolutionary tribunals, which pay little attention to such legal niceties as providing counsel for the accused. Last week the spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, belatedly took action to curb the killings. Khomeini issued an edict limiting the death sentence to those found guilty of murder, torture leading to death or the ordering of a massacre...
...Amway on a variety of charges that include fixing the retail prices that its independent salespeople could charge, allocating sales territories and misrepresenting the amount of money that distributors could earn. Last July an administrative-law judge in Washington threw out most of the FTC'S charges, but found that Amway was guilty of fixing prices. Amway officials contended that the practice had been discontinued in 1972. The judge's decision pleased neither Amway's nor the FTC'S lawyers, and both filed appeals. A ruling on the case by the four-member commission is expected...