Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While a small minority of the arrested protesters posted the $100 bail required for release, most of the "anti-nuke" prisoners remained in various National Guard armories in New Hampshire through out the week, in accordance with the post-occupation plans of the Clamshell Alliance, the organization opposed to the use of nuclear power that sponsored the short-lived occupation...
...Katangese occupied much of the copper-rich Shaba area without opposition. Mobutu's big break came a fortnight ago when Morocco's King Hassan II, whose army is still fighting leftist guerrillas in the former colony of Spanish Sahara, decided that the time had come to bail out a friend. Egypt's President Sadat was also sympathetic because he is fearful of Soviet ambitions, particularly in the Sudan, which lies between Zaire and Egypt...
Appalling! Absolutely appalling to free murderers, assassins and kidnapers without bail...
Galbraith rarely lets ideologies obscure his view of the world. It is an ironic view in which the need for international trade makes all nations defacto capitalists, and some of the staunchest supporters of laissez-faire have not been too embarrassed to ask the government to bail them out of trouble. The book's title cannot be pushed too far. All ages have their unknowns and inconsistencies. If they did not, the author would find little on which to hone his wit-an effective weapon for getting at realities beneath the appearances. He notes, for example, that Adam Smith...
...will be the next to suffer, and how can these acts be stopped? The latest incidents have ended relatively successfully. Terrorists have not achieved their goals and most have been arrested, though many are free on bail. Yet the acts continue. Many law-enforcement authorities argue that because of civil-liberties protests there is too little surveillance of potentially dangerous groups. In reaction to such pressures, Washington police files on the Hanafis were destroyed in 1974, and police informants were withdrawn from the group. It is possible that with proper intelligence the police would have been tipped...