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After 6 month's freedom, still same Gary Dotson

CHICAGO (AP) He started the year facing at least three more behind bars. He’ll end it a free man shackled by fame, living under a cloud. Still, Gary Dotson has come a long way. He’s planning his wedding, hoping to start a new job and the woman who once accused him of rape, said it was all a lie. But while his world has changed, Dotson, 28, has not. It’s been six months since Gov. James R. Thompson freed Dotson by commuting his 25- to 50-year sentence. In that time, friends and family say, Dotson has shown a remarkable lack of bitterness about his six years in prison. “Prison didn’t change him that much,” said longtime friend Bill

Indicted NASA chief won't step down

LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA administrator James M. Beggs has rejected demands that he resign following charges that he and three other present or former General Dynamics Corp. executives tried to defraud the government by hiding cost overruns on the ill-fated Sgt. York antiaircraft gun. Beggs was a General Dynamics executive vice president before becoming head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1981 and Rep. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J., a member of the House Science and Technology Com-

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Julian, who was with Dotson the night of the alleged rape. “It’s amazing he doesn’t hold a grudge. He doesn’t seem to have too much anger. ... He’s just so glad to be out.” “He’s the same before he went away, during and after,” confirmed Dotson’s 23-year-old sister, Laura. “He seems to have adjusted really well.” These first few months, however, have not been trouble free. First, a bout with hepatitis this summer landed Dotson in the hospital. Then he lost his job as a roofer. The combination left Dotson “in desperate need of money,” said Warren Lupel, his attorney. Dotson also had to get used to living under the watchful eye of parole officials. For the next three years, he

mittee that oversees NASA, urged his resignation on Monday. The executives and the corporation were charged Monday with one count each of conspiring to defraud the Department of Defense between Jan. 1, 1978, and Aug 31, 1981. They also were charged with six counts of making false statements. The 39-page indictment said $7.5 million was mischarged, resulting in a $3.2 million net loss to the government. The indictment was the latest in more than a year of government accusations of improper billings and bribery by the

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will be on “high supervision” reporting to his parole officer three times a month Like other parolees, every trip he takes outside Cook County must be approved. “He’s walking on eggshells,” Lupel said. “He’s very, very cautious in his everyday life.” And finally Dotson, who declined to be interviewed, has been uneasy with the media hoopla surrounding his every move. “He is very reticent, almost to the point of shyness,” Lupel said. “It was difficult for him to handle.” He has, however, signed agreements for a book and TV movie (he’d like actor Sean Penn to portray him) and appeared last month on ABC’s “Good Morning America” with his fiancee, Camille Dardanes.

nation’s third-largest defense contractor. “He is presiding over nearly $8 billion in federal spending. When a man is indicted on a charge involving fraud in spending taxpayer dollars, it’s difficult for him to continue with any confidence,” Torricelli said in Washington. “I will not resign,” Beggs said through a spokesman. He said he hadn’t seen the charges and couldn’t address them specifically. “But from what has been reported to me by my attorney I can state I am innocent of any criminal wrongdoing and I intend to

Astronauts coming home after productive mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Atlantis’ astronauts headed back to Earth today with proof that humans can build a space station and with a drug purified in zero gravity that could treat millions with red-blood cell deficiencies The crew of five men and one woman packed up their experiments and prepared to end their week-long journey with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 4:33p.m. EST. Normally, shuttles land on a dry lakebed at Edwards, but rain has soaked the area, so commander Brewster Shaw and pilot Bryan O’Connor were to guide their ship onto a concrete strip The astronauts were returning somewhat reluctantly from what has been a flawless mission since a spectacular night liftoff last Tuesday. “I’m looking forward to getting home, but I will miss the view of the Earth from up here,” Sherwood Spring told a news confeence from space on Monday.

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vigorously defend the case,” Beggs said. “I am confident that after all the evidence is aired I will be exonerated. ” U S. Sen. JakeGarn, R-Utah, who chairs the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees NASA spending, urged a cautious approach. “We have to let the courts decide,” said Garn, General Dynamics, based in St. Louis, said the indicted men “were honest in their judgments and acted in complete good faith. We are confident that when our side is heard, we will prevail.”

Spring and Jerry Ross spent much of the news conference discussing their two lengthy space walks in which they demonstrated space station construction techniques by building a 45-foot tower and a 12-foot pyramid structure and moving them around easily. Ross said he and Spring will spend time with space station designers "to assist them in understanding what it means to build a space station and what is the best and most efficient way of doing it.” The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to build a large permanent manned space station in orbit in the early 19905. During the flight, the astronauts launched three commercial communications satellites, grew crystals in weightlessness, operated a small drug factory and aimed a special camera at drought-stricken Ethiopia and Somalia in search of underground water.

-65 wind chill in North Dakota

By The Associated Press The upper Midwest shivered in subzero temperatures today as it dug out from up to 6 feet of snow, while warnings of heavy snow were issued for the northern Rockies and eastern Great Lakes area and arctic air brought freezing temperatures deep into Dixie. New York City declared its first “cold weather emergency” of the season, enabling police to round up the homeless against their will. Dozens of homeless people in Atlanta scurried to emergency shelters as temperatures dipped to 29 degrees. In Minnesota, the Mississippi River froze enough that people could walk on it. The temperature in Hibbing, Minn., this morning was 23 below zero and the minus 20-degree reading combined with 11 mph winds in Grand Fork, N.D, made it feel like minus 45. The National Weather Ser vice warned that wind chills could drop tc as low 65 below zero across North Dakota. Winter storm warnings were posted for the Idaho panhandle, northwest Montana, the higher elevations of Utah and for the mountains of western Wyoming and northern Colorado. Heavy snow warnings were in effect around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, from northeast Ohio through western and northern New York state, and for the northern mountains of Pennsylvania. Winds of 66 mph Monday whipped up 12 foot waves along Lake Erie, forcing 15C

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Sakharov's wife in Italy

ROME (AP) Yelena Bonner began her first visit to the West in six years with a family reunion and an apology her silence about the condition of her husband, dissident Andrei Sakharov. After flying Monday night from Moscow to Milan, she was joined by her son, Alexei Semyonov, and son-in-law, Efrem Yankelevich, for the final part of her trip to Rome. Mrs. Bonner, 62. is scheduled to visit Siena in central Italy on Wednesday to meet with her eye doctor. It was her eye condition, a form of glaucoma that could lead to blindness, and heart problems that prompted Soviet authorities to grant her a three-month visa. She had been under house arrest in the Soviet Union for 19 months.

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In Milan, the two relatives who had flown from the United States bounded up a staircase and embraced Mrs. Bonner as she left the plane, but Italian security forces ordered journalists off the airfield before the reunion ended. Mrs. Bonner told journalists who accompanied her from Moscow that she had signed an agreement not to discuss her life in exile or Sakharov’s health, and expressed fear she would not be allowed to return if she did so. “I won’t give an interview or press conferences. I want to come home,” she said minutes before leaving Moscow. A swarm of journalists awaited her in Rome, where she repeated asked that reporters “please forgive my silence."