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...that 1981 contest, Harvard travelled to Williamsburg, Va. for the first time since the series started, and held off a serious Tribe rally to come away with its fourth victory of the season...
...away. Although he said he was not physically abused, he spent a year in solitary confinement and was not even allowed to see a newspaper until last July 2. He was let go on Sept. 14, after 495 days in captivity. Flown in a U.S. Government plane to Norfolk, Va., he was met by his family and State Department debriefers. Word began leaking out, first on Sunday from Reuters in Beirut, then from the family. President Reagan announced Weir's release at the end of a Wednesday tax-reform speech in Concord, N.H., but by then it had made...
...well-known communications and electronics corporation admitted last week that it illegally received secret Pentagon papers. Gee! No, GTE. In U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., the Justice Department charged that from 1978 to 1983 GTE's government-systems unit obtained classified defense budget plans. GTE, which makes electronic-warfare devices like radar- jamming gear, could have used the information to anticipate products the Pentagon might order. The Stamford, Conn., company, which won $714 million in defense contracts last year, will pay a $10,000 fine and $580,000 for the costs of the investigation...
...grand jury indicted three individuals: Walter Edgington, a GTE vice president; Robert Carter, a former marketing manager; and Bernie Zettl, a defense-industry consultant in McLean, Va. Investigators say that Edgington requested documents from Zettl, a retired Air Force major, who got them through Pentagon contacts and sent the material to a post office box in Mountain View, Calif. Carter allegedly picked up the purloined papers. Zettl and Edgington, who were indicted for receiving classified documents, could be sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Carter faces a conspiracy charge that may result in a five-year term...
President Bok joined 19 other college and university presidents in urging the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would impose strong sanctions on the South African government. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), the presidents wrote that the U.S. must punish South Africa for its refusal to dismantle its apartheid system by "sending an unequivocal message through the imposition of official sanctions...