ARRESTED. Stephen Bingham, 42, fugitive lawyer charged with five counts of murder and one of conspiracy for aiding an alleged 1971 prison-breakout attempt by black Radical George Jackson in which the prisoner, two trusties and three guards were killed; in San Rafael, Calif. Bingham turned himself in, and denied smuggling a gun to Jackson, who had been in San Quentin awaiting trial for murder. Bingham said he had fled because he was convinced that he could not get a fair trial.
DIED. George Oppen, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet of spare, free-form verse; in Sunnyvale,...
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