Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the Manhattan criminal court, some prisoners shouted protests against the heat and overcrowding. To handle the overflow, the city reopened the Tombs, a Manhattan jail that had been closed by federal court order in 1974 as too decrepit. Feeding the prisoners was a serious problem at first because most...
The latest case involves a West German air force file clerk, Hans-Jurgen Jenzowski, who was arrested while handing secret documents to an East German female spy. In May, two other West Germans in sensitive positions-Dagmar Kahlig-Scheffler, a secretary in the Bonn chancellery's foreign affairs section...
She implies strongly that she would somehow find the funds to hire more firemen, improve the mediocre criminal justice system, and otherwise "improve the quality of life." She repeatedly emphasizes the need to modernize and upgrade the rapid transit system. To do that she would abandon the $1 billion Westway...
One reason for the influx of foreign cash has been Switzerland's enviable history of territorial neutrality. But in the postwar decades an equally big attraction has been the hermetic seal imposed by Swiss officials on banking activity-reinforced with maximum fines of $20,000 or jail sentences for...
The country's largest party, the Social Democrats, has promised to draft an "initiative" on banking control to be placed before Swiss voters within three years. Among the possible proposals: putting government representatives on bank boards of directors and making tax evasion a criminal offense, which would remove a...