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...broadcasts from his bunker, Somoza last week declared that he was "ready to resist until my death"; not so his long-time mistress, Dinorah Sampson, who flew to one of Somoza's many properties in southern Florida. Although it has suffered heavy casualties, the 12,000-man national guard is getting weapons and ammunition from Honduras and Guatemala, and remains more than a match for the rebels in any conventional shootout. But there are faint stirrings of discontent within the guard, which at this point is the only significant segment of Nicaraguan society that backs the dictator. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: More Blasts from the Bunker | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Whatever the truth, James Sampson apparently will not be able to shed any light on the Johnstons. Informants have told police that he lies in a grave somewhere in northern Chester County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...police to the body of an informer, Gary Wayne Crouch, in a shallow grave in dense woods near West Chester. A few weeks later, in the woods near Chadds Ford-a locale made famous by Artist Andrew Wyeth-state police unearthed the bodies of three gang associates: Wayne Sampson, 20, Duane Lincoln, 17, and James Johnston, 18. The three had disappeared in August, along with Sampson's brother James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...July, Robin visited Little Bruce at the prison farm, along with Bruce Sr. and James Sampson. Afterward, Robin went to a motel with the two men and drank most of a bottle of whisky. She later tearfully told Little Bruce that she did not clearly remember what had happened but she had passed out and awakened in the morning stripped of her clothes. Angry, Little Bruce decided to get even. On Aug. 9, he told a federal grand jury in Philadelphia about the theft ring allegedly headed by his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...week, in a phone interview with TIME, Norman insisted that he and his brothers had stopped stealing a year ago. Said he: "We got out of the business then." Moreover, he said, "the cops know we were miles away the night Robin was killed, and besides, it was James Sampson in that motel room in bed with Robin. She said it was Bruce, too, because the cops promised her they'd let Little Bruce go if he helped them get his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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