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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repudiated testimony. But last week the Marines began the court martial of Sergeant Clayton Lonetree for espionage and disclosure to the Soviets of the identities of U.S. agents, while he served as a guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Though Lonetree could be sentenced to life in prison, his actual crime, says Defense Attorney William Kunstler, was merely to have fallen in love with Violetta Seina, a Soviet translator at the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Lonetree Goes On Trial | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...from Ronald Reagan's standpoint would be indictment and acquittal," says a prominent Republican attorney. "He could then say, 'We were right all along.' " Says Republican Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois, a fervent Reagan ally on the Iranscam committee: "I oppose any presidential pardon until the gates of the prison are about to clang shut." And if Poindexter and North are convicted? "If I were President and they had been % found guilty," says Hyde, "I wouldn't want to leave office with them in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Begging His Pardon | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...paying off public officials in exchange for lucrative no-bid Government contracts. Nofziger was indicted under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which prohibits high public officials from lobbying their former agencies for one year after leaving their posts. If convicted, he ( could face up to twelve years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Conflicts of Interest | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

SENTENCED. Joe Hunt, 27, founder and leader of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club, an organization of scions of wealthy Los Angeles families; to life in prison without parole; after being convicted of murdering Beverly Hills Con Man Ron Levin, 42, who had bilked Hunt of $4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 20, 1987 | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

What does Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger like to do when he isn't terminating bad guys or zapping aliens? He goes to prison. To teach body- building classes to inmates, that is. The star of the sci-fi summer hit Predator caused more than the usual buzz of excitement during a recent visit to the high-security California Institute for Women in Frontera. "There was a large number of women who wanted to see him," reports Associate Superintendent Don Rasmussen. "Number one, because he's a man, and number two, because he's someone famous." Schwarzenegger spent two hours demonstrating various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1987 | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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