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LONDON (AP) — Soviet spy Geoffrey Prime,
convicted of espionage that caused “incalculable
harm” to Britain and its Western allies during 14
years of treachery, was sentenced Wednesday to
35 years in jail.
The 44-year-old former translator for British
intelligence was sentenced to three additional
years for sexual assaults on three young girls
Police questioning about those crimes led him to
confess his guilt and his espionage activities to
his wife, who informed police.
Prime stared blankly ahead as sentence was
pronounced
His 37-year-old wife, Rhona, sobbed
“By your treachery you have done
incalculable harm to the interests and security of
this country and the interests and security of our
friends in the (NATO) alliance," Lord Chief Jus
tice Lane said
Prime held a finger to his lips, but did not
flinch as defense lawyer George Carman,
pleading for leniency, declared: “What you see
before you is a desperately lonely and totally
inadequate person, a sexual and social misfit.''
Earlier this month intelligence sources said
Prime knew every monitored Soviet message and
every code broken at Britain's Government Com
munications Headquarters for electronic intel
ligence-gathering in Cheltenham
Prime, who learned Russian and German in
the Royal Air Force, pleaded guilty to seven
counts of passing top secret information to Soviet
agents between 1968 and last April, and to
sexually molesting girls aged between 11 and 14
The hushed courtroom No. 1 at London's Old
Bailey Central Criminal Court was told that after
Prime's April 28 arrest, his wife found espionage
equipment under a bed in their home
The prosecution said his "indispensable
tools of the modern spy" included a false bottom
briefcase, a top secret British document, powerful
radio, signal times and frequencies for radio
contacts
Shuttle ready, desert floods
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— America's space shuttle
stood poised on its launch pad,
ready for Thursday’s "loss
leader" debut as a commercial
cargo carrier The flight will be a
multi-million dollar bargain for
two firms whose communica
tion satellites will be hauled to
orbit
Four astronauts finished up
their training Wednesday and
the landing-site weather was the
only uncertainty to a liftoff at
7:19 a m EST on Columbia's
five-day return to space
"The machine is in great
shape," an official said Colum
bia's flight is its first as an
operating space truck after four
test missions
Satellite Business Systems of
McLean, Va , and Telesat
Canada Ltd., are paying NASA
$17 million for launch services,
a price negotiated years ago
The total cost of the flight is
estimated at $250 million.
Commander Vance Brand, a
space veteran, and rookie pilot
Robert Overmyer will fly the
shuttle: mission specialists Wil
liam Lenoir and Joseph Allen
will take care of getting the
satellites out of Columbia's
cargo bay and into space at the
proper time and place.
While launch-day weather
seemed no problem at Cape
Canaveral, it was a worry at
Edwards Air Force Base in
California, the Mojave Desert
landing site that is the prime
emergency runway at the start
of a shuttle flight
“We have the only desert in
the world that when you really
want to use it, it floods," said Lt
Gen James Abrahamson. head
of the shuttle program
If landing conditions are not
adequate for a launch-day
emergency, a one-day delay
could be called
The shuttle, 11 years in
development, has had four
successful test flights — but this
one inaugurates its career as a
wage-earner.
"This has been a long time in
the planning," said shuttle
program manager Glynn
Lunney "We re ready to go "
If everything goes as
scheduled. Lenoir and Allen will
kick out the first satellite —
owned by Satellite Business
Systems of McLean, Va., —
eight hours after liftoff The
second satellite, owned by
Telesat Canada Ltd, will be
ejected 24 hours later
Late Milk’s man, Smith, awarded
survivor’s benefits by SF board
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -
This city, where homosexuals
wield great political clout, has
awarded survivor s benefits to
the gay lover of slain Supervisor
Harvey Milk and proposed that
gay city workers and their
partners get the same benefits
as married couples.
The second proposal, con
tained in an ordinance written
by a homosexual supervisor, is
aimed at benefitting gays but
would also cover unmarried
heterosexuals who work for the
city
Both moves would be
unprecedented in San
Francisco, where the usual
estimate of the homosexual
population is upwards of
100,000 out of the 674,000
residents
The San Francisco
Retirement Board, whose deci
sions must be approved by the
state, ruled 3-1 Tuesday that
Scott Smith — Milk's business
partner and lover — is entitled to
a $5,500 settlement
Also Tuesday, a committee of
the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors unanimously urged
giving the unmarried partners of
all city employees — whatever
their sexual preference — the
same benefits as are granted
spouses
Mayor Dianne Feinstein,
whose support from the gay
community was regarded as
crucial in her election to office,
refused comment Wednesday.
“Lesbians and gay men are
just as capable of enduring
relationships as any person on
the face of the earth,’’ said the
proposal’s author, homosexual
Supervisor Harry Britt.
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