RUSSIA - Oct. 30 - American's Papers Rejected.The lawyer of Edmond Edmond, city (1990 pop. 52,315), Oklahoma co., central Okla.; settled 1889. It is a trading center with a huge oil field and small industries that manufacture concrete, petroleum products, and other goods. The city's population nearly tripled from 1970 to 1990. Pope, 54, US businessman accused of espionage espionage (ĕs`pēənäzh'), the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. , says a Moscow court has rejected a defence request to include documents on Pope's state of health because they were written in English. Pope, a former navy intelligence officer, is said to suffer from a rare bone cancer. He faces 20 years in jail if convicted of gathering secret data on a high-tech torpedo torpedo, in naval warfare torpedo, in naval warfare, a self-propelled submarine projectile loaded with explosives, used for the destruction of enemy ships. Although there were attempts at subsurface warfare in the 16th and 17th cent. . He says he was researching freely available information. He has been held in Moscow's Lefortovo prison which in its turn named after Franz Lefort, a close associate of Tsar Peter I the Great. since April and his wife has said he could die if authorities continue to deny him treatment. He was refused a request for a medical check-up a week earlier. |
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