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...District Judge Gerhard Gesell, John Ehrlichman momentarily lost his usual steely grip on himself. Standing glumly erect as he listened to the judge's words, Emiichman returned silently to the witness table when Gesell finished, reached out to steady himself on the back of his chair, then slowly sank down into his seat. Gesell had just sentenced the former White House domestic adviser to three concurrent prison terms of 20 months to five years each-for one count of conspiracy in authorizing the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding, and two counts...
...accident happened when the Turkish navy provided the air force with incorrect map coordinates of the area in which it would be steaming. Since Turks and Greeks both sail warships provided by the U.S., the Turkish pilot mistook the Kocatepe (ex-U.S.S. Harwood) for a Greek destroyer and sank it with one well-placed bomb...
...help is in sight to break the trend. Stock prices last week sank to a 1974 low of 791 on the Dow Jones industrial average and closed at 792. Those brokerages that have invested heavily in bonds have been grievously hurt by soaring interest rates, since bond prices go down as interest rates rise; and last week rates went higher still. Several major banks lifted their prime rate to 12%, a figure unimaginable until this year...
...Harvard men had a productive season, winning five major championship trophies, and placing in almost all the rest. The team sailed off with both the Greater Boston and Atlantic Coast Championships, but the Coast Guard sank the Crimson in the New Englands...
...from critical when they were picked up by a Korean fishing boat 1,500 miles from the site of the sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful of safety pins. Incredibly, the Baileys' emergency kit did not contain fishhooks; the pins enabled them to catch small fish...