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Under the terms of the deal, John agreed to tell the Government what information he had conveyed to the Soviets so that the extent of the damage to U.S. security could be assessed. He also agreed to testify against the ring's other alleged member, Jerry Whitworth, 46, a former Navy communications specialist who is awaiting trial in San Francisco. In return, prosecutors asked the judge to sentence John to a single life term and Michael to 25 years in prison. Each had faced the possibility of multiple life sentences. Now, John would technically be eligible for parole...
...stopgap measures. This change of emphasis became apparent at a meeting in Washington last month attended by most of the world's leading implant surgeons. Several felt that the artificial heart, in its current form, is simply too crude and too risky to be widely used on a long-term basis. Tucson Surgeon Jack Copeland, who helped pioneer the use of an artificial heart as a temporary measure, judged the Jarvik-7 "a monstrous thing that does awful things to people." The longer it remains in a patient, he said, "the more likely you're going to have trouble...
Though inconclusive, the French tests prompted the U.S. subsidiary of Sandoz, Ltd., the Swiss-based manufacturer of cyclosporine, to announce that it would soon begin tests of the drug in American AIDS patients. Said Max Link, who heads the subsidiary: "Only well-controlled, long-term investigations will answer the question of whether Sandimmun could play a role in the treatment of AIDS...
...members called themselves, pledged never to lie to one another. Buscetta was suspended from Mafia activities for six months in 1952 for breaking the code. "I betrayed my wife," he admitted. Buscetta told how one insider could tell whether he was being introduced to another. "My friend" was the term used to introduce outsiders; "our friend" signaled a Mafia member...
Under cross-examination, Williams admitted that he had tried to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to block deregulation of the trucking industry. Williams was convicted of attempted bribery in 1982, and is scheduled to start serving a ten-year prison term next month. He acknowledged that he was testifying in hopes of getting the sentence modified. Asked to explain the contradiction be- tween his admission now and his profession of innocence under oath at his trial, Williams had a simple explanation: "I lied...