Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though judges are more vulnerable outside the security of the courtroom, they can no longer feel totally safe while sitting on the bench. Last August Lindsay Arthur, 64, senior district judge in Minneapolis, was presiding at the arraignment of Richard Martin, 32. Suddenly, Martin tried to escape. Finding the exit blocked, he headed for Arthur. Martin punched the judge in the face, drawing blood and sending him sprawling. Last year in a Chicago courtroom, Defendant Wayne Ellis grabbed a revolver from a policeman's holster, aimed it at Judge William Prendergast and pulled the trigger three times. Fortunately...
Another 400,000 have received invitations from relatives in Israel, the first step in being granted an exit visa, but have been refused permission to leave, he said. Since the mail is censored, those who have received the invitations have been blacklisted, he added...
Stanislaw Baranczak, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, arrived in Cambridge last spring after a long struggle to obtain an exit visa...
...return, the East Germans agreed to release 43 West Germans jailed on catch-all "treason" charges-unjustly, according to the Bonn government. The plan also calls for East German authorities to issue exit visas to some 3,000 of their citizens who want to join relatives in the West. But for this the West Germans reportedly have to pay extra: a total ransom of about $45 million...
...farewell to his colleague: "As a writer, he is simply the best. As a stylist, he is impossible to imitate." Quite true, but Brinkley's NBC bosses seemed almost to have forgotten that during the past year. In fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against CBS's top-rated Dallas, later against The Incredible Hulk. Brinkley denied reports of contractual disputes with NBC News President William Small...