Word: freed
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...apartment. Last week Rosahn was indicted as an accessory in the robbery and three killings in Nyack. District Attorney Gribetz asked that no bail be set for the activist. "She's an individual who would flee the jurisdiction," he said. In fact, Rosahn had been temporarily freed only days earlier on $10,000 bail posted by her radical-minded mother, in connection with an antiapartheid rioting charge. Rosahn's alleged complicity provided a clearer link with a third leftist group, the May 19 Coalition, a Weather Underground offshoot that is believed to include Boudin and Clark...
...right-wing government immediately threw Andreas into Athens' dread Averof prison. Freed after eight months, he moved to Stockholm, then to Toronto. It was there that his anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments blossomed. Papandreou loudly claimed that the CIA had engineered the colonels' coup, and blamed Western Europeans for not opposing the military regime more strongly. To Papandreou, Greece's ancient enemy Turkey, also a NATO ally, is more of a threat than the Soviet Union. That notion was reinforced in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, an independent island nation with a predominantly Greek population...
Hotheads in the South, which depended on that despicable institution, threatened a second insurrection, but the combined weight of the northern provinces and the British army and fleet was enough to chill even their overheated indignation. Another cooling factor may have been the British offer of financial restitution for freed slaves: a total of ?20 million, a considerable sum, I might remind you, in those days...
...Iranian assets that had been frozen by the U.S. before the release of the 52 American hostages in January. Apart from the $1.4 billion in claims by U.S. banks against Iran, the disposition of the funds represents one of the last major unsettled financial issues from the agreement that freed the hostages...
...ghettoes of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages and as far away as the countryside of feudal Japan, the history of ethnic America unfolds not only on the American landscape, but on all the continents of the world. Scotch-Irish pioneers settled the mountainous regions of Appalachia, while freed Black slaves migrated to the cities of the Northeast. Turn-of-the-century immigrants turned New York into the largest Jewish metropolis that culture has ever known; Japanese farmers transformed the valleys of California into the most prolific fruit-producing areas of the world...