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Ouur states 3A New York Star-Gazette, Oct. 24, 1984 Briefly Brink's robbery defendant convicted of. murdcfr NEW YORK (AP) Donald Weems, already convicted in the bloody $1.6 million Brink's heist in Rockland County, was found guilty Tuesday of murder and other charges in the holdup of a Brink's armored truck in the Bronx in which one guard was shot to death and another permanently disabled. Weems, 37, could be sentenced to life in prison in the June 2, 1981, robbery and murder. Sentencing was set for Friday by Judge Ivan Warner of state Supreme Court in the Bronx.

A second suspect, Samuel Smith, was killed in Queens in a chase and shootout with police a few days after the Rockland County heist. Weems was convicted of second degree murder, robbery and the possession of weapons. Weems, also known as Kuwasi Balagoon, was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison late last year for the bungled Brink's robbery in Nyack on Oct. 20, 1981, in which a Brink's guard and two Nyack police officers were killed. Weems and three others were convicted in that case, and a fourth defendant pleaded guilty.

Officials have said the Nyack robbery was carried out by a coalition of black militants and white radicals of the 1960s, including members of the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army and the Black Panthers. In the Bronx robbery, two Brink's guard were shot as they took money bags out of the truck, which was parked at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in a shopping center at 4022 Boston Road. William Moroney, 58, was killed, and Michael Schlachter, 46, was severely wounded and remains permanently disabled. After the shooting, the gunmen took $292,000 and fled in a car, which was found abandoned a few blocks away in the parking lot of a motel. Weems had been identified by witnesses, the Bronx District Attorney's office said.

question Police head's lawsuit is scheduled for trial Operator's NEW YORK (AP) The Nude-ar Regulatory Commission is investigating why its examiner gave five senior control room operators at the Indian Point 3 plant a final exam drawn up entirely by a consultant for the plant's owners. The NRC licensing examiner who gave the test in the summer of 1983 has been reassigned to an area "not involving administration of licensing examinations," according to the NRC. The federal agency also has ordered that the five senior reactor operators take new examinations. test under In the meantime, they will not be assigned any duties requiring a senior reactor operator's license, according to the New York Power Authority, which operates the unit in Buchanan, 25 miles north of the New York City border. The test that was given to the workers was drawn up by a consultant for the Power Authority.

He had given the workers some of the questions during practice tests, NRC spokesman Frank Ingram said Tuesday. Usually, Ingram said, NRC examiners make up their own test, the report by Inspector General Sidney Schwartz was based on outdated information that did not reflect dramatic improvements made in the track department since June 15. Where a year ago one-third of TA track workers had to be diverted to emergency repairs, almost eight years, claimed he was fired in retaliation for filing a federal civil lawsuit in September 1983 against the Peekskill city government alleging racial discrimination. Kirkland, 57, was seeking a preliminary injunction against the city to get his job back. Peekskill officials said Kirkland had no contract or civil service protection and served at the pleasure of City Manager Joseph Seymour.

In Tuesday's hearing, Jose Rivera, Kirkland's attorney, argued that his client "was considered a sterling commissioner for eight years until that day when he decided to throw stones at the glass house." Rivera said Kirkland's initial lawsuit was "a constitutionally protected activity." Inspector slams sloppy track checks NEW YORK (AP) Saying he didn't know whom to believe, a federal judge on Tues-day scheduled a trial of a lawsuit filed by a former Peekskill police commissioner who wants his job back. "I've concluded the factual differences between the parties are so great that it is impossible for the court to decide" the matter based on the arguments and court papers, said U.S. District Court Judge Morris E. Lasker. The judge scheduled a trial for Nov.

13, after hearing oral arguments from attorneys representing the city of Peekskill and Walter Kirkland, the former police commissioner, who was fired Oct. 15. Kirkland, who is black and had been commissioner for Pennsylvania 1 -i I CAMERAS drawing from an extensive pool of questions submitted by the utilities, from other examiners, from other plants and some written expressly for a particular exam. "We expected him to draw up his own exam, not take one exam and pass it along," Ingram said. The NRC said that "30 far" it had found "no indication of wrongdoing or impropriety" by cither the Power Authority, the five senior reactor operators or the con-sultant who prepared the examination.

all 774 are now returning to their scheduled duties, they said. "Our goal by the end of the year is to have the crisis situations the areas that won't last the winter without major work under control," said Charles Stanford, the authority's chief engineer. Sat. Oct. 1 State lottery fund under attack HARRISBURG (AP) The state has avoided a lottery fund investment "catastrophe" through "luck, not skill," a Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.

A top Thornburgh administration official, however, said the lottery fund's investment portfolio is "solid." Revenue Secretary James Scheiner also said the state can improve the way it invests the money and may consider using an "outside" adviser to help make investment decisions. Scheiner spoke at a hearing of a A MAN CHARGED WITH STABBING a vacationing bank executive to death during a robbery in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City in 1982 pleaded guilty Tuesday just before jury selection was to begin in his case. Juan Robles, 21, pleaded guilty to murdering Kathleen J. Williams, a 30-year-old Chase Manhattan vice president who lived and worked in Mexico City. THE MARRIOTT MARQUIS a 50-story hotel nearing completion in Times Square in New York City, was hailed Tuesday as the cornerstone of reclaiming 42nd Street.

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The state does not directly pay money to winners of large lottery prizes. Instead, it purchases annuities from insurance companies, which must then make annual prize payments. Capitol Life has sold about $65 million in annuities to the state the defendants of "attempting to corruptly influence public officials by offers of employment, large political contributions, paid travel and cash," Queen said. According to the indictment, $300,000 had been intended as a payment to an individual named "Dwyer." 16-count indictment issued in bribery case HE-RflAN, SKELETOR ORKO IN PERSON Meet Them In Person Receive a Free MASTERS Gift While Supply Lasts. HARRISBURG (AP) Five individuals and two corporations were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of participating in a "large-scale orga-nized effort to bribe Pennsylvania public officials," U.S.

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