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Bribes and Kickbacks. Scandal hurt too. On the day that the Labor convention opened, longtime Party Stalwart Asher Yadlin (TIME, Jan. 17) was sentenced to five years in jail and fined $28,000; in a confession that shook the nation, Yadlin admitted accepting bribes and kickbacks to the union medical...
Nor can the FBI. Said one agent: "He was a Marine. He had been in Viet Nam. He didn't have a record. How do you figure it?" As for why Rees wrote his confession, the FBI's Charles Bates, chief of the San Francisco bureau, speculated before...
"The family of Jesus Christ is incomplete so long as one of us is missing. Won't you please join us?" Responding to this half-page newspaper ad and similar appeals, 12,000 Roman Catholics in the Memphis area-one-fourth of the local diocese's membership-turned...
The boy, who had never known his father, was inarticulate, malleable and anxious to please authority. After 25 nearly sleepless hours of questioning and polygraph testing, he almost obligingly agreed with his police interrogators and "confessed" that he had killed his mother. Though he later recanted, a jury believed the...
In between confession-going, I think of new ways to fuck, in ways as anonymous as possible, with strangers whom I'll never see again, with whom I'll never have to share what I describe in my journals as "the fetid burden of sentiment."