Word: flee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freed, before the end of their allotted terms, four Americans who had been in East German prisons for more than a year. Three of them-Frederick Matthews, 24, Moses Herrin, 26, and Mary Battle, 26-had been convicted of the once unpardonable offense of assisting persons who wanted to flee the Iron Curtain. The fourth, William Lovett, 26, was imprisoned in May, 1965 for his part in a serious auto crash in Leipzig...
...Committee for Refugees and a former secretary to the Eisenhower Cabinet, who has lately spent considerable time arranging freedom for other Communist captives. He won the release last March of John Van Altena, a young American who had also been convicted of assisting an East German family trying to flee to the West...
...hostage for a bag full of francs. A policeman tries to arrest them for double parking and with one flic, the flick, for them, is over. The boys lose their cool, shoot the cop, and spray the surrounding crowd with a submachine gun; three innocent bystanders die. The thieves flee, and like kids miming a game of cops and robbers they shoot it out on the rocks in an abandoned quarry. But playtime is over; the bullets are for real...
...Nicholas S. Nunzio: "It won't take them long to catch on." The law allows judges to jail defendants during a court trial to prevent Barringer situations. But a judge would have to set forth in writing his reasons for believing that the defendant might be likely to flee; the defendant could then file an appeal to a higher court. The same goes for pretrial release and for the new law's provision permitting judges to impose the conditions for release, such as requiring the accused to report to the police daily...
...compiling a volume of masterpieces that TIME has not run, entitled The Greatest Story Never Told. The villains are the editors, the heroes us. In the meantime, I plead guilty to the following: in Casablanca, the Moor the merrier; at the Berlin Wall, the best things in life are flee; Adenauer is der Alter Ego; and Khrushchev was the Vulgar Boatman...