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Show Wednesday, September 1, 1976 Page 4 ...JFS STILL OUT THERE I INTERNATIONAL Moscow Three Americans who pleaded guilty to smuggling nearly 63 pounds of heroin into the Soviet Union, and apologized to a Moscow court for it, were sentenced Friday to varying terms of 5 to 8 years in labor camps.- N A three-judge panel gave eight years to Gerald R. Amster, 33, of New York City. The court said Amster was responsible for conspiring with Chinese traffickers to carry the heroin which has a New York street vlaue of about $3 million from Malaysia to Europe via Moscow's international airport. Dennis R. Burn, 26, a burglar alarm installer from Whitestone, N.Y., received seven years and Paul Brawer, 31, a building manager from Las Vegas, Nevada five years. The sentences are to be carried out in a "strengthened regime" camp which is less severe than the "strict regime" camps that provide the toughest conditions for prisoners. The three were tried under a Soviet Legal code that provides for "deprivation of freedom" from three to 10 years for smuggling contraband including narcotics. The maximum sentence for smuggling narcotics into the United States is life imprision- ment. Brawer told a reporter he thought his sentence was fair. There was no comment from the other two. The Americans were the first to be tried in the Soviet Union on any charge since 1968. The Netherlands The multimillion dollar Lockheed payoff scandal continued to fester around the world last week as it tarnished major public figures in the Netherlands and Japan and threatened to topple politicians in Italy and West Germany. Shortly after Lockheed Aircraft Corp. officials disclosed to a U.S. Senate subcommittee in March that the company had paid $24.4 million in several countries to push sales of its airplanes, the search for the recipients of those payments began. Holland's probe recently reached a climax when Prince Bernhard retired from public and business life as a result of the scandal. In Other countries, a former Japanese prime minister has been arrested and faces criminal trial, prominent Italian politicians remain under a cloud of scandal and West Germany is sending an envoy to the United States to inspect Justice Department and Lockheed records if op, possible , irregularities. in German plane purchases. 1 : . -'!. .O.. London British Airways, according to the airline's annual report, released Thursday, lost $4.14 million on its supersonic Concorde jetliner service during the first 10 weeks of operation. The report said only 174 hours of commercial flying time were logged between London and the Persian Gulf city of Bahrein from the beginning of service Jan. 21, to the end of the financial year on March 31. Spokesmen for both British Airways and Air France said the Concorde service to Washington was making money. London. Kngland Thirty-nine persons were killed Saturday when two unrelated U.S. Air Force C141 transports from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., crashed about three hours apart, one in England and one in Greenland. According to the Military Airlift Command, 21 persons died in the Greenland accident at 8:50 a.m. MDT. Six others survived with serious injuries. The Pentagon reported there apparently were no survivors among the 18 persons aboard the plane that crashed in England. Referring to the strange coincidental crashes John B. Richmond, a spokesman at McGuire said, "It is believed there is no connection between the two." And in Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said there was no indication of sabatoge. NATIONAL Houston Leon Jaworski revealed recently that on the day he arrived in Washington to discuss the job of Watergate prosecutor, a possible U.S. Supreme Court appointment was dangled before him by Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. "You're highly regarded and it's no secret that you're high on the list for appointment to the Supreme Court," Haig, then chief of staff to President Nixon, was quoted as saying in Jaworski's book, "The Right and the Power." "I suppressed a smile," Jaworski wrote. "The remark could have been part flattery, part fact, but I suspected it was all bait." Haig, now the supreme allied commander in the ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was not immediately available for comment. Philadelphia - Two persons who attended the International Eucharistic Congress have died of legionnaire's desease, raising the death count from the mysterious killer illness to 28, state health officials reported Thursday. Both victims had recently stayed at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the headquarters for the State American Legion convention July 21-24, the officials said. The number of cases from the disease has risen to 177 persons with all but seven connected in some way with the Legion convention. Word of the new deaths came shortly after the city's top medical official said a theory that poisonous nickle carbonyl gas caused the disease is "only a long-shot theory at best." . y .'9'. h ! ':;:v-. t r, v t'n.-; : T'! Seattle Jimmy Carter,., after telling,.' .an American Legion convention he would pardon all those who refused to be drafted to fight in Southeast Asia, was answered by angry shouts and thumbs-down signs from the audience. In his speech to the American Legion's national convention, Carter said he does not "favor blanket s amnesty, but for those who violated Selective Service laws, I intend to grant a blanket pardon." "To me, there is . a difference", Carter said. "Amnesty means that what you did was right. A pardon means that what you did right or wrong is forgiven. So pardon yes amnesty no." 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