Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, it was Lal's Sanjay connection that most intrigued observers of India's gathering political storm. Mrs. Gandhi's son treated the Congress Party's youth movement, whose funds Lal is accused of stealing, as his personal fief. Both have been granted anticipatory bail against possible charges relating to other investigations. Most of the probes are unrelated, but in at least one the two men could be implicated jointly. At issue: whether Lal arranged the sale of state land to Sanjay at below market prices for the construction of a controversial automobile plant, and whether...
...Avenue conference center in Paris last week for some pressing business. Although the nations of the world have been borrowing madly from one another and from private banks, many countries, especially underdeveloped nations of the Third World, are still unable to pay the soaring costs of imported oil. To bail out these nearly bankrupt states, Witteveen wants seven Western nations, led by the U.S., and seven OPEC countries, headed by Saudi Arabia, to raise an emergency fund of about $10 billion to be parceled out in loans by the IMF. At week's end Witteveen pronounced the meeting "very...
...city's courts and prisons were swamped. At Beame's urging, prosecutors refused to plea bargain with suspected looters and arsonists or agree to release them without bail. As a result, police station houses and courthouse holding pens were jammed with prisoners?up to ten in small cells designed to hold one person...
Despite their dilemma, farmers typically are skeptical of federal aid. Says one: "You gotta be bankrupt before they'll give you anything. That disaster aid is a joke, and isn't sufficient to pay for the fertilizer." Nor are farmers looking to fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter to bail them out. "Jimmy's not the type who'd show favoritism," says Jim Warbinton on his spread outside Vienna. "Just because he's from this area, he's not going to roll the money...
...help bail out deficit-ridden municipal governments, many of which are run by the Communists and Socialists, the Christian Democrats agreed to support a package of new local taxes...