Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Middle America was treated to a first-class TV farce. The commentators nightly huddled together with nothing to say, waiting for Press Secretary Ziegler to bail them out once again with another vapid press release praising the Chinese hospitality the analogy of the week award was given to one clever reporter who thought that China was more intriguing than the moon. But every one agreed that Erik Sevareid topped it with his continuous mane mutterings that the Chinese educational system was calculated to destroy the minds of Chinese youth. (Sound familiar?) But the Nixons did try to show their appreciation...
Just five days before she was due to go on trial, Angela Davis finally made it to freedom. After 16 months in prison and seemingly endless petitions for bail in and out of state and federal courts, she was released on $102,500 bail. Earlier she had been thwarted by the California provision that no bond is granted in a capital case in which the proof of guilt is evident or the presumption of guilt great. Then two weeks ago, the death penalty was declared unconstitutional in California. With the case therefore no longer potentially involving capital punishment, her release...
Superior Court Judge Richard Arnason stipulated in granting bail that Angela neither leave the area nor participate in public rallies without permission of the court. Looking better than she had in months, a smiling Angela told reporters, "This has been a true victory, a people's victory-not only my release but the abolition of capital punishment." Then she went back to preparing for her trial on murder, kidnaping and conspiracy charges for allegedly providing four guns used in the August 1970 Marin County courthouse shootout in which a judge, two convicts and an accomplice were killed...
Helicopters equipped with infra-red sighting which were designed for use in Vietnam have already been used in domestic police work, Fink said, and one Pentagon associate has suggested the use of electronic signal bracelets and tracking equipment to watch over released convicts, parolees and prisoners on bail...
...Newark, Washington, D.C.-they are all Atti-cas," he says, shrugging his shoulders, "except it's minimum security there." He has little faith in American justice. "Justice?" he protests. "Look at it. Look at Hoffa. Look at Lieutenant Calley. And look at the Harlem Four -eight years without bail...