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Tuesday, November 6, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 FBI arrests five suspects, loses another 3 'tiered J that lialfl iurv thil ted bvjJ s >iice hail request J court o(| until t nit ious alb ide ctt uidotheti I witntj md thatij if 1 Warped by Scott McCullar ^WEU-, ALLCH, AS WRPP'i’ MOV IE C-KITIC, WHAT P/P 100 THIHK OF THE /AOV|£ -eal, an al, ani >f arnu ; Chapa n-lawofi ■eding, •laetWM e thargei lion inf i s for X| cadets.! *r the fisl ier time a tetied q m worli lid shell but on| ge Statii n to Ai| adio vdi en the*) ed, it | first At 68 Cod ■Si United Press Internationa] CLEVELAND — Five accused revolutionaries, one of whom has aeen on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for seven years, were in custody londay and authorities searched bortheast Ohio for another man be lieved to be a member of the group. The six are suspects in a string of dolent crimes, including the 1981 slaying of a New Jersey state Itrooper, a dozen bombings and a se- |ries of armored car and bank heists. Police raided a farmhouse Mon- lay in an attempt to capture Thomas Manning, 38, of Boston, dio also is on the FBI’s 10 Most (Wanted List. But he apparently fled shortly before authorities arrived. “We hit the house and nobody was there,” FBI spokesman John Dunn said. The five arrested, who authorities charge are members of the Sam Mel- Iville-Jonathan Jackson Unit, were Ischeduled to appear before a U.S. [magistrate later Monday for a bond [hearing. The group takes its name from [radical Jonathan Jackson, who died [in a 1970 shootout in a San Raphael, [Calif., courthouse, and radical Sam jMelville, ring leader of a Weather- Jmen-affiliated group who died in Ithe Attica, N.Y., prison uprising in 11971. Among the five suspects was Ray- nond Luc Levasseur, 38, of San- Iford, Maine, who has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted List since 1977 and was identified as a member of ’the gang. Levasseur is wanted for bank rob- Ibery and unlawful interstate flight. IGros was charged with harboring a ■fugitive. Also arrested Sunday were Rich- lard Charles Williams, 38, of Beverly, [Mass., wanted by the FBI for unlaw ful flight to avoid prosecution for [the murder of New Jersey State [Trooper Philip Lamonaco; Jaan jKarl Laaman, 35, a West German [native, wanted for unlawful flight af- [ter a 1982 shootout with Massachu setts state police; and Barbara J. [Courzi, 26, charged with harboring [fugitives. Williams, Laaman and Courzi jwere arrested without incident in Cleveland, and Levasseur and Gros were arrested after police pulled them over as they drove near Deer- I field, about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland. OH, IT WAS OA'AjJlT COULP HAVE IT HAP SOME. A/ICE. ACTION, BUT I WOULDN'T CAKE. TO SETE JT AGAItf. SHOE ma mm ( NlOPE... 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