Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth would Congress at a time when food prices are soaring rush to raise artificially the price of a basic supermarket staple? Yet that is just what is happening to sugar. Moreover, the congressional effort is designed to bail out far fewer than one-half of 1% of the nation's farmers, specifically 11,000 sugar-beet growers and 1,800 raisers of sugar cane...
Nations, and Vladimir Zinyakin, a member of the Soviet U.N. mission. The first two were charged with espionage and put in jail, where they remained last week in default of $2 million bail apiece. They face life imprisonment if convicted. Zinyakin, who has diplomatic immunity, may simply be sent home by the Soviets at the State Department's request. As is apt to happen in the spy business, the three had been doublecrossed by Ed, actually a loyal Navy officer who went along with the Russians to entrap them. His name is being withheld, but he may have...
...shaky, uniquely corrupt and autocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. Even with the hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that the U.S. has pumped into Mobutu's army, it broke and ran in the face of a few thousand Katangan rebels, and had to be bailed out by the French and Belgians. Mobutu's latest pronouncement on the subject was his call this week for a "foreign defense force" for the copper mines in Katanga--a euphemism for mercenaries and more bail-outs...
...jobs. They can't pay their workers on Government projects a whopping differential over their workers on commercial projects. Result: Pittsburgh firms get the Government jobs. They bring in Pittsburgh workers, and the taxpayer, in the goodness of his or her heart, doesn't bail out the poor people in Appalachia but subsidizes union workers from Pittsburgh...
...spent a secluded year and a half in her family's home in Hillsborough, Calif., since she was released on $1 million bail after 14 months in prison. But last week it looked as though Patty Hearst might have to go back to jail; the Supreme Court let stand her conviction for robbing a bank. Her lawyers immediately asked the federal judge who had given her seven years to reduce the sentence. If the judge says no, Patty will have to spend another 14 months behind bars before she is eligible for parole...