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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981
By Scott McCullar
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IANDREWS AIR FORCE
BASE, Md. — An Air Force legal
ief says he offered an honorable
icharge to a young officer ac-
sed of passing secrets to the
ssians, but insists he never au-
lorized immunity from prosecu
tion for him.
B Testifying Tuesday in the pret
rial hearing of 2nd Lt. Christopher
oke, Brig. Gen. C. Claude
Teagarden also confirmed that he
sed to make his discharge offer
in writing.
Frank, it is not going to be in
i writing,” Teagarden recalled tell-
ng Capt. Francis Pedrotty last
^itioimti Bay. “Either he takes the poly-
|aph (lie detector test) or he
lesn’t. Either the statement is
; iDp tnie or not. ’
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Teagarden was expected to be
back on the witness stand for the
seventh day of the hearing
Wednesday. F. Lee Bailey,
Cooke’s lead defense lawyer,
plans to cross-examine him.
Bailey maintains Teagarden
verbally promised immunity and
that Cooke, 26, of Richmond, Va.,
fully cooperated. Therefore, he
says, all 14 charges against the for
mer deputy missile officer should
be dropped.
Earlier this week, prosecutors
argued that the immunity offer —
relayed to Cooke through an Air
Force interrogator — came about
as the result of a “series of mis
understandings.” They said there
was no authorized offer.
Teagarden, staff judge advocate
for the Strategic Air Command,
told the military court he had
offered to arrange for an honorable
discharge for Cooke if an initial
statement he made last May on his
contacts with the Russians were
proved truthful and if he passed a
lie detector test.
Cooke, former deputy com
mander of a Titan II missile silo in
Kansas, is charged with 11 counts
of unauthorized visits or contacts
with officials at the Soviet
Embasssy in Washington and
three counts of attempting or
actually communicating national
security secrets to them.
If convicted on all counts, he
could face 52 years at hard labor,
discharge from the service and
forfeiture of all pay and allo-
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Shirley Temple immortalized
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SAN FRANCISCO — Shirley
Temple Black is still very much
alive, but she has become a major
part of American nostalgia.
The former child movie star
this week signed an agreement
with the Norman Rockwell
Museum, Inc., which now has the
right to reproduce Shirley Temple
film characters and scenes from
her 20th Century-Fox movies
onto collector plates, figurines and
other collectible items.
“This is the first time the
museum has diversified away from
the manufacture of Norman Rock
well-related items,” said Mike
Cooper of the museum headquar
tered at Northbrook, Ill.
As a dimpled, curly-haired
youngster, Miss Temple was the
movies’ box-office champ for four
consecutive years in the late 1930s
and is the youngest person ever to
win an Academy Award.
“An accurate representation is
important to me, and I’m sure, to
those who remember my films,”
she said at the signing. “I believe
the quality of the museum’s cur
rent designs will ensure faithful
reproduction of the Shirley Tem
ple film characters.”
Original Shirley Temple items
from the late 1930s in mint condi
tion already are prize collectibles,
often bringing hundreds of dol
lars.
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Fleifii* HOUSTON — An English cat
that had a perilous crossing of the
Atlantic in an air-tight shipping
container has been sent home to
its owner in far more fashionable
ptyle — sitting on a tartan blanket
on a British Caledonian DC-10.
And to make it even better, the
fare for the return trip was the
same as for the first one, free.
“She was put in a box in the rear
hole,” an airline spokesman said
Tuesday. “It’s quite comfortable.
She is sitting on tartan blanket and
getting along very well.”
The well-traveled cat. Lucky,
wandered into a 40-foot-long
oceangoing cargo container in En
gland about five months ago and
ended up in central Texas. The cat
was trapped in a virtually sealed
container but somehow managed
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e higtaBjTTLE CHICAGO, Minn. —
Nobody bothers Fred Wroblews-
Idkidkfas abandoned pj ce County farm-
|)use anymore thanks to a 300-
Goldrt gund lion named Spike.
othergM The 3-year-old lion lounges on
|p of a wrecked Thunderbird,
ncludeci which bears spray-painted signs
NewEidSaying- “Keep Out,” “No Trespas
sing and “Man Eater Lion.”
“Tve called the sheriff seven or
( l sme eight times about vandalism and
enougnfthey ne ver do anything,” Wrob-
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lewski, who operates a body shop
in Northfield, said Tuesday.
“Now, I’m not breaking the law
and the people call the sheriff and
they’re out there looking at (Spike)
every day. The only reason Spike
is out there is to keep the people
out.”
The lion Wroblewski bought a
few months ago, has been cas
trated, declawed and defanged.
“I wrestle with him all the
time,” Wroblewski said. “He’s a
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real gentle fellow. He just likes to
sit around on that old car.
“He’s got his own T-Bird and
his own house. Maybe people are
just jealous they don’t have that.”
But Wroblewski’s neighbors
are neither jealous nor amused by
Spike’s presence.
“This might be fun and jokes
and games to somebody 100 miles
away from here,” said Phyllis Fyl-
er, who lives across the gravel
road from Spike’s new jungle.
“But when it’s your family, you
think twice about laughing. ”
Spike, who is restrained by a
30-foot steel chain, wanders
around the house, munching dry
dog food or meat scraps left for
him.
to survive with no food and little
air.
After widespread publicity ab
out the cat’s miraculous survival,
British Caledonian offered to take
her home. The return trip took
just under nine hours.
Linda Sinclair in Morecambe,
Lancashire was happy to be get
ting her long lost cat back.
“It’s a miracle,” she told repor
ters. “People really are wonderful
and so are cats.”
Lucky’s complicated, acciden
tal travel began in April when she
wandered away from home. The
fat, black and white female wan
dered into a containerized cargo
box being loaded with antique
furniture outside the warehouse of
J.C. McNamara in Heyshame,
Lancashire.
The furniture had been bought
in February by Gary Fingleman of
Austin and Houston for sale in
Gary’s Auction House in Lock
hart, near Austin.
Fingleman said the watertight
cargo container was loaded at
McNamara’s during the week be
fore April 28, the day it was sealed
shut with nothing to eat or drink
inside and only the trapped air to
breathe.
Then the container was trans
ported to London where it sat on
the docks until loading onto a ship
for Texas. Then it made the two-
week voyage to the Port of Hous
ton, where a U.S. Customs paper
work snag delayed it three weeks.
Finally, on June 15, the con
tainer cleared Customs and was
trucked to Lockhart. Fingleman
said his men opened the container
about June 18, 52 days after it was
sealed.
“When we unloaded it, the cat
just kind of stumbled out, ” Fingle
man said. “We took it to the vet
and the vet checked it over. We
fed it baby food for two weeks until
it got to where it could eat by it
self.
“I don’t know how it ever
lasted. The vet that saw it said it
was amazing.”
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