Word: layton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspensions resulted from two separate incidents in 1978. The first--which reportedly involves Caulkins, Pennington, Linehan, Cynthia Woodhead (3 golds, 2 silvers at the World Championships), Stephanie Elkins, Kim Dunson, Gina Layton, Dawn Rodighiero, Greg Jagenburg, Marc Foreman, and two other unidentified swimmers--occurred after the conclusion of a U.S.-USSR dual meet in Austin, Tex., last April. The swimmers had been attending a birthday party for an American team member, a party which sources claimed was sponsored by AAU money and attended by American coaches and Russian team members. Apparently, the swimmers violated curfew (said...
...second incidence of code violations was less petty in nature, and more severe in its consequences for the athletes. It reportedly involved the use of drugs by five swimmers--Layton, Foreman, Beth Harrell, Steve Tallman, and Jan Ujevich--at a training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo. last August, while the American "B" Team was preparing for an upcoming dual meet with Canada. Four swimmers were suspended for two years with two years probation, while Ujevich, because she was a minor at the time, drew a one-year sentence with another year's probation. The International Subcommittee...
...athletes and coaches applauding the rulings, there seemed to be some muffled dissatisfaction with the trivial nature of the offense in the one case and the harshness of the penalty in the other. "I don't see how they have the right to do that to Marc," said Gina Layton, who was unwilling to comment on her own case, but "had no idea why the penalties were so harsh for those two (Tallman and Foreman)." Layton's bewilderment evoked memories of other chapters in the AAU's illustrious past. Time magazine reported one incident several years ago in which...
...another hearing in Guyana last week, Larry Layton, the cult member who pretended he wanted to return home with Congressman Leo Ryan and ended up taking part in the shooting at the airstrip, was charged with the Congressman's murder. Another cult survivor testified at Layton's pretrial hearing that Jones himself had talked about the need for Ryan's death and predicted that his plane would "fall out of the sky." Survivors returning to the U.S. have told the FBI that the cult's basketball team, to which Jones' natural son Stephan...
Despite their dubious and sometimes deadly activities, the cults have remained pretty much outside the law. Evidence emerged last week that the U.S. State Department had been given ample warning of the impending catastrophe at Jonestown but had not acted decisively. Deborah Layton Blakey, sister of Larry Layton, the commune's alleged executioner, sent the department an eleven-page statement detailing Jones' paranoia and brutality, the suicide drills, the weapons present in the camp, the malnutrition and sickness that were rampant, and the state of fear in which most of the inhabitants lived. She claims that the commune...