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...turned bloody. A man believed to be fugitive Order Member David Tate, 22, killed a state trooper and wounded another when his van was stopped for a routine license check near Branson, Mo. At week's end the unarmed Tate was seized by police about ten miles from the murder scene...
...verdict took only three minutes, and the accused were not even present. Even so, the air was filled with suspense when a five-judge military panel last week found Vice Admiral Wang Hsi-ling, the former head of Taiwan's military intelligence bureau, guilty of plotting the murder of Chinese- American Writer Henry Liu, who was gunned down at his Daly City, Calif., home last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail...
...reversal of any conviction on the basis of recanted testimony alone is rare; there has never been one in Illinois. In Massachusetts three months ago, a judge overturned the 1974 first-degree-murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed...
DIED. James Briley, 28, murderer convicted of killing a pregnant Virginia woman as well as her five-year-old son and implicated in other 1979 gang killings; by electrocution; in Richmond. The same electric chair six months earlier had claimed Briley's older brother Linwood, also convicted of multiple murders, with whom he and four other men escaped for 19 days in the greatest death-row breakout in history; a third brother is serving a life sentence for murder. Club-wielding fellow prisoners attempted to stop James' execution in a 30-minute uprising that left nine guards and one inmate...
...President Reagan continues to press for an international consensus on how to deal with terrorists. Addressing a meeting of the American Bar Association in Washington last week, he challenged what he called "a confederation of terrorist states ... a new, international version of Murder, Inc." Said the President: "The American people are not--repeat, not--going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent...