ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, May 1, 1996 TAG: 9605010077
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
Divers fail to find ex-spymaster's body
WASHINGTON - William Colby's wife watched from a porch Tuesday as police divers scoured an inlet near the couple's Southern Maryland vacation home during a fruitless daylong search for the former CIA director, missing since Saturday in what apparently was a boating accident.
Rescue dogs riding in boats and police using draglines joined in the third consecutive day of searching the silt-laden waters where the Wicomico and Potomac rivers converge with Neale Sound. The day's effort concluded after nine hours with no sign of Colby. Searchers said they still consider him a missing person, rather than a drowning victim, and vowed to keep looking for days if necessary.
Colby, 76, CIA director from 1973 to 1975, was a competent sailor, a canoe enthusiast and a strong swimmer, said police and local residents. He told his wife by telephone Saturday that he planned to go canoeing that evening even though he felt tired.
- The Washington Post
Tobacco company criticizes payments
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. challenged the ethics of anti-tobacco lawyers Tuesday after a whistle-blower admitted getting a $109,000 house, two co-signed car loans and a salary for his efforts.
Merrell Williams, a former paralegal accused of stealing sensitive industry documents, maintains that except for his salary, everything else from Mississippi attorney Richard Scruggs and his partners was a loan.
But Brown & Williamson, which is suing Williams over release of the documents, said the deposition by their attorneys, unsealed Monday, shows he was paid for stolen material.
``The admission by Williams raises serious ethical questions regarding how far plaintiffs' lawyers will go to win lawsuits,'' Brown & Williamson lawyer Gordon Smith told USA Today in a story published Tuesday.
Williams' attorney, J. Fox DeMoisey, said the deposition showed that the financial assistance amounted to loans.
``He was in bad health and had no money,'' Scruggs said Tuesday. ``We gave him financial assistance. It's not any big secret. We'll help anyone who exposes any wrongdoing by the tobacco industry.''
- Associated Press
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