Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sylvia Seegrist, 25, is a diagnosed schizophrenic with a history of violence that includes stabbing a mental health worker. Sent repeatedly to mental institutions in suburban Philadelphia, she kept getting sprung, thanks in part to various courts' strict interpretations of Pennsylvania's involuntary- commitment law. A year ago, she was committed for 20 days after trying to choke her mother but, against the recommendation of her psychiatrist, was released yet again. Last week Seegrist's mother Ruth tried to persuade her daughter to commit herself to a hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what...
...seems the tenants had a clear-cut case. Some had been illegally evicted and Columbia had been ordered by the city to repair the others' apartments in the north wing, but continued to stall. After tenants filed a lawsuit, Columbia offered to negotiate. But the university refused to commit itself to a date for completing repairs. Columbia officials insisted that tenants simply ought to trust the university to act in good faith. The tenants were not convinced. Still homeless, they went back to court...
Last year an intoxicated student tried to commit suicide after being taken to the town jail. In response to the incident, students proposed an on-campus holding facility...
...August 5, the seven were found guilty of the weapons charges, but acquitted of conspiring to commit armed robberies and to free two radicals serving prison sentences involving a 1981 Brink's armored-car robbery in Rockland County, N.Y. Two policemen and a guard were killed in the robbery...
...government prosecutors maintained that the seven planned to commit the crimes and had even rehearsed armed robberies. But the defendants said they were being prosecuted merely for their politics and for their community activisim in the Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods where they live...