Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Augustine would be the focal point of his activities for the summer. For several days he led demonstrators who marched down town or protested on the beaches. Hundreds were arrested and many brutally beaten. King himself was seized and served two days in jail before releasing himself on bail in order to fly to New Haven to receive an honorary degree. By August, the demonstrators had won the right to eat in local restaurants and to sleep in local hotels and motels, rights which few will use. And recently white night-riders have resumed their raids on the Negro section...
Commissioner Esther Carter's ignorance is in the best (or worst) tradition of an ancient office that now requires no special qualifications whatever. In 1793, Congress began appointing "discreet persons, learned in the law" to accept bail in federal cases. The qualifications died in 1896, when Congress handed over the appointments to U.S. district judges. Today's 700 U.S. commissioners may be butchers, bakers or candlestick makers. Yet they function as the federal judiciary's committing magistrates, hold preliminary hearings and determine whether accused persons shall be released or held for trial...
...says Warren Olney III, director of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. "It's a chaotic mess." Olney points significantly at Detroit, which has not had a U.S. commissioner for 16 years. Detroit's federal judges serve as committing magistrates themselves. "You don't find bail-bond brokers hanging around the courthouse in Detroit," says Olney, "which raises the suspicion that maybe one of the commissioners' first functions is to keep bail bondsmen in business." Olney concludes: "Detroit is better off without a U.S. commissioner...
...composed of legislators from the six Common Market nations plus Britain) approved the Wilson plan by a vote of 37 to 9, with 15 abstentions. This qualified endorsement will give Wilson a somewhat stronger hand to play in his talks this week with President Johnson. But having just helped bail the British out of their financial crisis, Washington is not rushing to buy the Wilson plan-or to force the Germans to buy it. Speaking at Georgetown University last week, Johnson allowed as how "we shall never insist on unanimity" within the alliance, meaning that the U.S. and West Germany...
...arrested students were freed on a mass bail bond of $85,000, which a faculty group helped to guarantee. Within hours, the intransigent undergraduates, since October organized in a self-styled Free Speech Movement dominated by civil rights militants, Trotskyite groups, and members of a Communist front, called a strike on the 27,500-student campus at Berkeley. "We have promised that this university shall not run," said Savio, "and we shall keep that promise." One-third of the Berkeley faculty signed a telegram to Kerr and Strong urging amnesty for the four students who face punishment...