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...outside the county jail in Waukegan, Ill., last month, Attorney Charles Wilson tried to console Roger Hubbard, 36. Hubbard's wife Carol, 30, who was five months pregnant, was being held in jail on charges stemming from a shoplifting case, and Hubbard could not afford the $23,000 bail. Wilson explained that since he had defended a man charged in the same case, it would be a conflict of interest for him to represent Carol. How, then, to get her out of jail...
...will bail out Poland? That question has sparked a kind of pressure-packed international poker game involving 15 Western governments, some 460 private banks and the Soviet Union. Among the chief Western creditors are the U.S., where 60 banks have Polish loans on the books, plus West Germany, France, Britain and Austria. None of the governments or private players want to increase their stakes in the game, but none can afford to let Poland's economy collapse and lose all the money that they have already...
...them from getting scratched. Every time I got a cup on, it would slide after about ten seconds." Goodwin's victorious arrival at the top of the 110-story Sears building proved a bit of a comedown-he was arrested for disorderly conduct. After being released on $35 bail, he vowed: "There will be more stunts to come...
...into the affairs of Sicilian Financier Michele Sindona, an accused P2 member currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Investigating magistrates claimed to have found evidence that lodge members had helped Sindona skip bail in New York in 1979 by faking his kidnaping and hiding him near Palermo. Another alleged lodge brother was the former commander of Italy's Finance Police, General Rafaele Giudice, who has been implicated in an oil-import scandal involving as much as $2.2 billion in tax frauds...
...that evidence. The result is a dismissal of all charges. To some experts the appeal would be worth trying. Says Columbia Law Professor Harold Edgar: "I don't think Browne's decision would stand up." Watching intently from Rikers Island prison, where they are being held without bail, are the two defendants. If Santucci guesses wrong, they may soon be free...