Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement with the Teamsters, he had not taken part in the detailed negotiations. Nor did the report fault Lance specifically for the Atlanta bank's willingness to lend one of the Calhoun bank's officers, Billy L. Campbell, as much as $250,000 only weeks before his arrest for embezzling nearly $1 million from the Calhoun bank from 1971 to 1975. Lance has been criticized for a serious lapse of judgment in okaying a sizable loan to a man whose finances were known to be shaky. But the comptroller did not report such criticism and did note that...
...promised to let out of the Philippines' military stockades. (Last January Marcos conceded that there were as many as 4,700 military detainees.) He has also promised to phase out the military tribunals created by martial law and to replace them with civil courts. He has ordered the arrest and trial of two military officers accused of torturing Civil Rights Leader Trinidad Herrera, who, after being visited by U.S. diplomats in Manila, was finally released from jail...
...area's longstanding racial and political ferment is far from over. Even if authorities contain the black-white confrontation through the summer, the Skokie problem promises to reappear. Vows Nazi Collin: "Come hell or high water, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, arrest or no arrest, violence or no violence, we will go into Skokie before the end of the year." While Collin's timing may be overly optimistic, his reading on the First Amendment may well be on target. Says one federal judge: "One day the Nazis are going to march in Skokie, as is their right...
Died. Loren Corey Eiseley, 69, maverick anthropologist, educator and author (The Immense Journey, Darwin's Century); of cardiac arrest; in Philadelphia. Eiseley taught for 30 years at the University of Pennsylvania, but his poetic writing, which bridged the gap between art and science, won him a wide audience outside the scholarly world. Although reconciled to the fact that "there is but one way into the future: the technological way," Eiseley's lyric musings harkened back to humanity's primal origins and the wisdom in fairy tales. Man's "basic and oldest characteristic," he wrote, is "that...
...identity papers as a drunken lark. The second man, however, gave an alias and disappeared. Last month he suddenly turned himself in, identified himself as Michael James Meisner, 27, a former national secretary of the Church of Scientology, and said he had just escaped from two months of "house arrest" by cult members. Meisner told the FBI that he had supervised a whole program of covert operations against several Government agencies during 1975-76. Scientologists had planted the arrested IRS employee and a Justice Department secretary in their jobs for the express purpose of stealing documents concerning investigations of Scientology...