Word: arrested
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...grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others claim that their clients are stigmatized by the career-criminal category, even though the trial jury never learns the defendant has been specially labeled. The career-criminal program has reduced the gap between arrest and trial to about 60 days in some cities, a marked improvement. Remarks Boston Prosecutor Lloyd Macdonald: "Defense attorneys are always trying to stall...
...politics." Instead, he claimed, it was a chance for Chile to send a message to the nation's international critics. Pinochet had ordered the referendum in December after passage of a U.N. General Assembly resolution that condemned Chilean authorities for "torture, disappearance of persons for political reasons, arbitrary arrest, [and] detention...
...problem: the two men were the first FBI agents ever to penetrate the dark and harsh world of the Weather Underground. Ralph, actually Agent Richard J. Gianotti, and Dick, Agent William D. Reagan, lost their cover in November when federal judges needed their testimony to issue warrants for the arrest of Van Lydegraf and four Weather people, the biggest roundup of the group ever made. The Government contends that the five aimed to bomb the office of California State Senator John V. Briggs, a conservative Republican who hopes to run for Governor on a strong stand against homosexual rights...
...estimate of Chief Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann, that haul was the most damaging espionage case since World War II. In terms of military intelligence, he said, it surpassed even the work of Günter Guillaume, former Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, whose arrest three years ago as an East German agent moved Brandt to resign. The key figure in the trio appeared to be a stunning brunette, Renate Lutze, 37, who from 1972 until her arrest was chief secretary to the head of the Defense Ministry's personnel and welfare section; for reasons not yet fully...
Prominent among the doubters is Mike Royko, whose syndicated Daily News column is the city's chief journalistic export - and a favorite Madigan target. Madigan has pilloried the Daily News and its rivals for burying an account of the columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely...