Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spanish government seemed to agree. Last week it released Carrillo and his colleagues on bail, temporarily defusing the crisis. In fact, Carrillo's release seemed tantamount to the legalization of his presence in Spain, from which he had been exiled for nearly four decades. He will probably not even be brought to trial before next spring, when Spain will hold its first parliamentary elections since pre-Franco days...
White has good relations with the legislative leadership but trouble may arise. Along with Timilty, the school committee will fight the proposals and committee member David Finnegan's brother is a powerful House chairman. However, last December the State House rejected White's pleas for a financial bail-out (Boston's property taxes jumped by 25 per cent this year) and this has increased the pressure to accede to White's demands. It is expected that White will get the needed votes and the signature of Governor Michael Dukakis, who is usually amenable to home rule petitions...
Cord, who was released last week on $10,000 bail, could not be reached for comment Wednesday...
...that in fact, he's a lot worse than what he tried to supplant. During the trial of the Chicago Eight, J. Anthony Lukas '55, who covered it for The New York Times, tried to insert David Dellinger's comment, "Oh bullshit," (for which Judge Julius Hoffman revoked his bail) into the news story he was writing. The Times national desk balked. They wanted to say Dellinger used "an obscenity." Lukas persisted, and they compromised with "a barnyard epithet." You used to get a feeling that Tom Wolfe at his best gave you stuff like that, but no more...
Mason ruled, however, that he had already taken Puopolo's condition into account when he set the original bail figure...