University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 26. 1989
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FBI agent is granted a new trial
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - The only FBI agent ever convicted of spying was granted a new trial yesterday by a federal appeals court, which said the detectors had not have been told about his lie detector tests.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the espionage convictions of Richard Miller, a 20-year FBI veteran charged with furnishing a classified document to the Soviet Union in return (a promise of $65,000 in cash and gold). He was sentenced to two life terms plus 50 years in prison.
sentence to two the terms plus 30 years. The court said that U.S. District Judge David Kenyon wrongly allowed prosecution witnesses to relate the questions Miller was asked by a polygraph examiner, the answers he gave and the examiner's conclusion that he was probably lying.
The polygraph evidence bolstered the credibility of Miller's later admissions of wrongdoing, "the heart of the prosecution's case," Judge Dorothy Nelson wrote in a 3-0 decision.
The 9th Circuit, like most other courts in the United States, has consistently refused to allow lie detector results as evidence of truthfulness because of doubts about its reliability.
Nelson said that Kenyon also made other errors in the trial, including allowing too general testimony by a government witness. The witness identified as an expert on Soviet recruiting methods, was allowed to attack Miller's character, improperly inviting the jury to draw conclusions about Miller's bad character and propensity for lawbreaking.
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"We're pleased with the results," said Joel
Levine, a lawyer for Miller. "We would be more pleased if we didn't have to wait almost five years for a fair trial with a client in custody," referring to the time Miller has spent behind bars since his
U. S. Attorney Robert Bonner of Los Angeles, who headed the prosecution team in the case, said he would examine his options after reading the
"We may re-appeal and we have other means," Bonner said, apparently referring to requests for a full appeals court rehearing or Supreme Court review.
Miller was convicted in June 1986 of passing secrets to the Soviets through his lover, Stvellana Ogorodnikova, a Soviet immigrant whom he had met in 1984.
Shuttle liftoff is rebirth of planetary exploration
The Associated Press
CAPE CANNAVERAL, Fla. — The countdown began yesterday for Friday's launch of space shuttle Atlantis and five astronauts on a mission to send a payload to Venus and revitalize S. J. planetary exploration program.
The $550 million Magellan-Venus project will mark the end of a decade-long dry spell for U.S. planet flights and signal the beginning of a science-rich three years when four major probes will be rocketed into
deep space.
Liftoff is scheduled for 2:24 p.m. Friday in a rare afternoon release. Only five of the 28 earlier shuttle flights took off after noon.
The countdown clock began ticking on time at 8 a.m., when electrical power surged into the spaceship.
Six hours after Atlantis lifts off, commander Dave Walker and his astronaut crew will release the 7,600-pound Magellan payload, propelling it on a 484-day journey to Venus.
Earthquake stirs memories causes panic in Mexico City
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake struck Mexico City and Acapulco yesterday, cracking buildings, shattering glass and panicking thousands of people who remembered the killer quake of 1985.
One man was electrocuted when power cables fell on him, and two women were seriously injured when they jumped in panic from the second story of a swaying building during 9:38 a.m. CDT.奶教 officials, said.
Police, sent on inspection patrols throughout the city, reported no collapsed buildings or other deaths or injuries and no damaged buildings swaged and were evacuated.
"The quake produced a lot of panic
because of the recent experience," said Mavor Manuel Camacho Solis.
The tremor shook the Pacific beach resorts of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, but there were no reports of death or damage throughout the state, according to state government spokesman Miguel Angel Hernandez.
"Even though the quake was intensely felt, everything is normal, and there are also reports of no major damage on the radio," said Hernandez by telephone.
The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was 40 miles east of Acapulco, about 200 miles south of City Mexico, Saigon.
seismologist John Minsch. Mexico's Seismic Institute calculated the quake at seven on the Richter scale.
Surgery reduces transplants
Doctors develop alternative for those with ailing hearts
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Almost a third of those needing heart transplants eventually may be candidates for new surgery in which a flap of back muscle is wrapped around the ailing heart to help it pump, doctors said Monday.
"The candidates, ideally, will be people who are heading toward a heart transplant, but still have enough reserve left," said Dr. George Magovern, chairman of surgery at Allegheny General Hospital.
The experimental procedure was performed last month using a special pacemaker, which stimulates the transplanted back muscle in multiple bursts, unlike conventional, single-pulse pacemakers. The muscle thus is able to contract with the heart for longer period of time.
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was the first time the 3'-ounce cardiomyostimulator, manufactured by Medtronic Inc. of Minneapolis, had
been implanted into a patient in the United States, Magovann said. Allegheny General is the only hospital with U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to use the device in clinical trials.
The patient, Ralph Beinstein, 57, an interior decorator and his wife and her marvelous. He had suffered from chronic bronchitis.
His left latissimus dorsi muscle was partially removed March 20 and wrapped around his heart three days later. The pacemaker was implanted below the left side of his chest, and he remained turned on March 31. He was discharged last Wednesday.
"I just generally feel better, psychologically as well as physically." Belstein said at a hospital news conference attended by his wife, Virginia, and their four daughters and eight grandchildren.
He was able to avoid a heart transplant, a riskier procedure the team devised voltwile wallews because of the organ's position.
The muscle-flap operation was first performed in the United States by Magovern in 1985.
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