US spy jailed for 10 years
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday August 24, 2009
Barbara Powers, 29, wife of the downed U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, saw her husband for 75 minutes at the Soviet Supreme Court after he had been jailed for 10 years for spying. Mikhail Grintov, the Russian lawyer who defended Powers, said it would be the last visit permitted before Powers, pictured, began his sentence.The former Soviet minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who gained the distinction of having a petrol bomb named after him, had a topsy-turvy career, from being prime minister from 1930 to 1941, foreign minister under Stalin, then banished as envoy to Outer Mongolia. Now he was the representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.A Russian, Alex Hildebrandt, appeared before a Brisbane Magistrate's Court on a multitude of charges after allegedly threatening to blow up a TAA Electra plane with 43 passengers and seven crew over Brisbane. He pointed a sawn-off rifle at the pilot, Thomas Bennett, and ordered him not to land in Brisbane. He had two sticks of gelignite on him and lead wires in his hands. Bennett knocked the rifle upwards and it discharged, but he managed to overpower Hildebrandt.Three hundred doctors and medical students in Adelaide watched their first colour television demonstration of an operation, in this case the removal of a thyroid gland.Roger Pegram, the manager of the Australian swimming team at the Rome Olympics, denied Italian media reports that his swimmers were suffering from conjunctivitis. He said there was a high chlorine content in the water.Copies of front pages from The Sydney Morning Heraldcan be bought through Fairfax Photos.Go to www.fairfaxfrontpages.com.
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