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...issue of TIME, of the book Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster. Though Sudoplatov and his son Anatoli are listed as the authors, the book was actually put together by American journalists Jerrold Schecter, a former Moscow bureau chief for TIME, and his wife Leona, from 20 hours of taped interviews with Sudoplatov, together with his official writings for KGB archives and other documents gathered by his son. The spymaster, however, now 86, read and signed the written Russian-language version of the disputed chapter. In it he asserts that Oppenheimer and the other physicists...
...theMr. T and the T-Force comic books: "We going toGermany, we going to Japan, we taking the booksevery-where, like Star Trek say, we going where noman never gone before, we taking books where booksnever gone before. We sending the book to MikeTyson, we sending the book to Leona Helmsley.B-10New ComicsFrom the comic book, "Mr. T and the TForce." Mr. T sheds tears over a victim of crackaddiction...
...abortion method, efforts to legalize it in the U.S. have met with repeated failure. Last year a pro-choice group called Abortion Rights Mobilization decided to force a court challenge of the import ban imposed on RU 486 by the Bush Administration in 1989. The organization helped Leona Benten, a pregnant 29-year-old California social worker, fly to England, obtain a dose of RU 486, then try to bring it into the U.S. through New York City's Kennedy Airport. Customs officials seized the pills. The ensuing legal battle went up to the Supreme Court, which refused to order...
...repentance is foremost in my mind in every waking moment and its intensity increases with the passing of every day," writes Leona Helmsley in an uncharacteristically groveling letter to a New York federal judge. The missive goes on to contend that Helmsley, the prominent hotel queen who is serving a four-year sentence for evading $1.2 million in federal income taxes, should be released as soon as possible from the prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she has been studying for a high school-equivalency diploma. An expected favorable ruling by the judge, perhaps this week, would allow Helmsley to rejoin...
...includes details of the good works she would do during her parole, newspaper editorials calling for her release, doctors' reports on her allegedly failing health and even letters from well-wishers, including one man who offers to distribute buttons, bumper stickers and lawn signs emblazoned with the words FREE LEONA. It was presented in court by Helmsley's lawyer with the aid of a kind of professional called a sentencing consultant, one of a growing breed of specialists who counsel convicted offenders on how to avoid or cut down on prison time...