Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal milk price supports in 1971. To back up that charge, the Government relied on testimony by Attorney Jake Jacobsen. When seven charges of fraud against him in a Texas savings and loan scandal were dropped, he had agreed to testify against Connally and to plead guilty to one count of offering a gratuity to a public official...
Melodramatic though Williams' appeal may have been, it worked. Connally is still not entirely free of trouble, but it appears that he soon will be. In pretrial motions Williams managed to have separated two perjury counts and one conspiracy count against his client, and the day after Big John's acquittal the special prosecutor's office went into court and moved to have the charges dismissed. Jacobsen is still awaiting sentencing on the charge of offering a gratuity to a public official. The maximum penalty for that offense is two years in prison...
...Moscow, the consensus among foreign diplomats was that Shelepin's fall had not been caused by policy differences but by power politics. According to one scenario, Shelepin was caught organizing a faction that would have seized power when the ailing Brezhnev retired or died. Now Brezhnev can probably count on eight votes, including his own, on issues that come before the 15 remaining Politburo members. This might enable him to engineer an orderly transfer of power at the 25th Party Congress that is scheduled to begin next February. Current favorite to succeed him, at least on an interim basis...
Shigeto worked his way toward the fringes of the holocaust in the center of the city. He lost count of the number of patients he treated that first day, but vividly remembers the feeling of frustration that overtook him as he emptied his bag of supplies, then began tearing up his shirt to bandage the injured. Says Shigeto: "I realized how terrible it is to be a doctor and to be unable to do anything at all to the hundreds of wounded and dying all around...
Besides helping with homework and doing the family finances, mothers manage to spend a great deal of time with their children- among other things teaching them the various ritual forms of greetings and farewells. Appearances count in Japan and influence reality. The measure of "sincerity" in the complex act of apologizing for a traffic accident, for in stance, helps determine the eventual fine imposed by the judge. Such simple but pervasive social medicine helps fight off alienation and spiritual exhaustion...