Word: bail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passage, and there is something very primal and sexual about it. A boy of 16 is allowed to join in if he is accompanied by an adult; a boy of 17 can come on his own. For an $8 entry fee, he is assured of up to $250 in bail bonding against crimes he might commit. He is required to be at the American Legion post at 7 a.m. with his horse, to be in costume and to wear a mask. One of the twelve rules he must obey is that he "shall not possess nor consume any beverage except...
ARRESTED. Jim Brown, 49, former Cleveland Browns star fullback; after an % unidentified 33-year-old woman filed a complaint alleging that he beat and raped her with the help of another woman; in Los Angeles. Brown, who has faced several previous assault charges, was released on $17,500 bail pending an investigation of the incident; no charges have yet been filed by a prosecutor...
...long. When the drug war was declared, ex-Smuggler Fabio Ochoa voluntarily gave himself up to the police. "I have nothing to fear," he announced. Sure enough, the authorities could muster no more % serious charge against him than illegal possession of firearms. Six weeks later he was released on bail, and the case is now in limbo. "We know who (the cocaine kings) are, and we can't nail them," says Police Captain Guillermo Benavides. "But the worst thing is that even if we could get all the bosses, new ones would immediately take their places. They...
...Kahoun's daughters, Elizabeth, 38, a nursing-home aide, became so angry that she placed telephone calls to both President Reagan and Agriculture Secretary John Block. She never got past secretaries. One in Block's office told her, "Honey, there's not enough money in the U.S. Treasury to bail out all the country's farmers." Predicts Elizabeth: "If and when the farm goes for sale--and I think it's when--Dad will probably die and Mom will go bonkers, and I am suing the U.S. Government for bringing this evil on this family...
...group look to Government to save them. "I kinda got to go along with David Stockman," said Mark Boege, 52, who grows walnuts and almonds. "I don't know why the Government has to bail us out. Besides, it seems like every time Government comes in, it makes things worse." Jim Vella, 51, an almond raiser whose wife, Clarice, 41, had to take a supermarket check-out job to help out, agreed. "Look at what Government did to those guys in the Midwest. They've been getting subsidies for years and they're in terrible shape." But what should...