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Like other journalists traveling aboard Peanut One, NBC Correspondent Judy Woodruff had known for months about Jimmy Carter's interview with Playboy. But until Interviewer Robert Scheer spelled out details for her two weeks ago, she had no idea of its contents. As soon as she spotted Carter's somewhat vivid language, she got word to Today show Host Tom Brokaw, who broke the story Monday morning...
...church's organization shows a feudally hierarchic side of Mormonism that helps lead to its political conservatism. The impact of revelations depends on one's position in the church: Prophet Kimball's revelations can change all Mormon doctrine (Prophet Wilford Woodruff did just that on the polygamy questions in the 1890s, after a federal crackdown on polygamy sent many prominent Mormons to prison.) The revelations of the head of the Boston stake (or diocese) will affect the stake (in the choice of a branch president, for example), and each individual's revelations are restricted to his or her self...
Moore was arraigned on a charge of attempting "to kill the President of the United States by the use of a handgun." She asked for and was given a public defender, James Hewitt, as her attorney. U.S. Magistrate Owen Woodruff set bail at $500,000 and, with the concurrence of both Hewitt and the U.S. Attorney's office, ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests at Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. That may take 60 days. Said one top police official: "This looks like completely a mental case, and if that's what finally comes out, that should wrap...
...artist who disappeared in 1972 after being charged with taking part in a plan to bomb the naval-architecture building on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Federal authorities believe that she and Patty Hearst have been together since at least the summer of 1974. Magistrate Owen Woodruff dismissed federal fugitive charges against Yoshimura, and remanded her to the custody of Alameda County authorities to face arraignment for her part in the Berkeley incident. As she was taken from the courtroom, she paused at the defense table and touched the outstretched hand of Patty Hearst...
...Magistrate Owen Woodruff arraigned Hearst in federal court on charges of bank robbery and federal weapons violations...