Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provided the guns and is just as guilty as if she had pulled a trigger. Harris does not claim that he can prove Miss Davis' involvement directly. Instead, he is trying to provide the classic ingredients of a successful prosecution based on circumstantial evidence: that she wanted to commit the crime (motive), that she could have done it (means and opportunity) and that she then acted as if she had done it (guilty behavior afterward...
FIRST, Harvard will have to commit itself to a policy aimed at the complete withdrawal of Gulf from Angola. There is nothing extravagant or unrealistic about such a policy. There are many cases of American and European firms withdrwaing from areas which are considered not to have the right "political climate." In the great majority of such cases, of course, the wrong "political climate" happened to have been a pro-socialist or nationalist "climate", but I see no reason why an American firm cannot, once in a while, be on the side of the angels. Besides, there are cases...
Those arrested in yesterday's action were booked on charges ranging from criminal trespass and breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor to assault and battery on a police officer. Late Friday night administration officials had said that protesters remaining in the Union past midnight would merely be cited for contempt of court...
...explanation, the defense objected, was "contradictory, irrelevant to the issues, grossly confusing and repetitious." In one note breaking down the subdivisions under count 1, the all-important conspiracy charge, the jury asked: "Do we find some of the defendants guilty if we have evidence that they have conspired to commit A, B, C (the vandalizing of draft boards) and F (the Kissinger kidnaping) and if we cannot find enough evidence that anyone conspired to commit D and E (the bombing of heating tunnels)?" When the judge replied affirmatively, the defense charged that his answer "amounts to a directed verdict...
...Businessman William Bailey "with a lot of optimism and $100," GNP built a fortnightly circulation of 11,000 by listing only stocks that went up, banning ads for cigarettes and sex movies, and contriving such upbeat leads as: "In the U.S. last year, 196,459,483 citizens did not commit a crime." But the paper fell $45,000 into debt. To the end, Bailey never printed the sad account of his failure in the Good News Paper...