Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woods: The South African government has this belief that Uncle Sam will always bail it out. It looks upon Americans as basically white and believes that they'll think racially. It's my belief that until something is done that actually costs the United States, something that proves that the U.S. is not kidding around, the South African government will see no reason to change at all. The only things I can see that are non-violent, and that would constitute a strong pressure, are withdrawal of investment and loan money from South Africa, and recall of the ambassador...
...since Sept. 29 and half forgotten by the world that he once so loudly challenged, appeared in the Alameda County Court. There he received a new sentence of two years on a technical charge of carrying a gun while a felon, but he won his release on $50,000 bail pending appeal. Later this month, however, he is to go on trial for the street-corner shooting of a 17-year-old prostitute...
...future of rock's bad, bad band has been in doubt ever since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 22 grams of heroin in the possession of Lead Guitarist Keith Richard 20 months ago. Out on $25,000 bail, Richard has been touring with the other Rolling Stones, but faced a possible seven-year jail term when he came to trial. Last week in Toronto he listened somberly as his lawyer described him as "a tragic person" with "a poor self image" who became a heroin addict but who has now kicked the habit. A sympathetic judge put Richard...
...estimated $7.9 billion in fiscal 1978. But the Administration has resisted pressure to set support prices still higher?even though Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland last winter had to climb out a basement window to escape a few fanatic farmers who invaded his office demanding that the Government bail them...
...June 1977 when assigned to a year's duty as a guard for the Ford family. Patty Hearst, 24, still in jail for bank robbery, is planning to marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a San Francisco cop who was one of her bodyguards when she was free on bail last year...