Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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East German television features hour upon hour of "documentaries" about Angela. The radio broadcasts the latest bulletin about a protest rally in Tanzania or some other faraway spot. When Miss Davis was released on bail, East Germans took undue credit for springing her. East German children study about Angela in school. Students and youth groups collect money for her defense fund. In cities across the country, billboard posters and banners repeat one demand: Freedom for Angela. At the Leipzig Fair, one of Europe's oldest industrial exhibitions, the East Germans have put up a large display about Angela...
...sales office to London, administering clients' accounts from Amsterdam and keeping only executive offices in Geneva. That plan was shattered in November, when the Swiss arrested three I.O.S. officers on charges of "dishonest business practices" and held them in jail for one night before releasing them on bail. Among the trio was New Jersey Entrepreneur Robert Vesco, 36-year-old chairman of an electronics firm called International Controls Corp., who wrested control of I.O.S. from Cornfeld's group in 1970, and is now chairman. The charges were dropped recently...
...passed on information through the dead drops. I shall never know why I was not charged." Britain's Director of Public Prosecutions also was puzzled, and ordered an investigation. At week's end Maureen Bingham was charged under the Official Secrets Act and released on $1,200 bail...
...Bail-Out Fund. Negotiations on the specifics of the deal with Saudi Arabia will continue this week, though no final agreement is expected for months. OPEC made it clear that member nations are more unified than ever in their determination to gain part ownership of the companies. OPEC members are considering starting a multimillion-dollar special fund "to assist any member country affected by actions taken against it by oil companies." Presumably the money could be used to keep afloat nations whose oil might be boycotted by Western oil buyers in participation disputes. Eventually the producing countries hope...
Murray refused to grant Popkin either a stay of sentence or bail, finding no apparent grounds for appeal on the ruling. Popkin was handcuffed and removed to the Charles Street Jail...