Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting, the key characters, even the major prop were familiar. In Courtroom 2 of the federal Courts Building, where the first of the Watergate trials began more than four years ago, Judge John J. Sirica last week presided over the "last major decision I'll have to render in this long, difficult case." Having sentenced 17 Watergaters to prison terms, Sirica was ruling on petitions for leniency from the only ones who are still imprisoned-John Mitchell, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. At their trial, tape-recorded conversations in the Oval Office had sealed their convictions...
This grisly modus operandi was used in the 1973 abduction of the grandson of Oil Billionaire J Paul Getty who was persuaded to pay $2.8 million in ransom after kidnapers dispatched the boy's right ear to a Rome newspaper. In the Getty and Pianelli cases, as in most Italian kidnappings, the criminals have not been simply political fanatics out to punish the rich, but professional hoods -often Mafia members-seeking high profits...
...United Technologies Corp. made an opening tender offer, the arbitragers began sinking $100 million-much of it borrowed-into purchases of B & W stock, starting at $42 a share; they quickly bought up more than a quarter of the outstanding shares. Then they sat back happily while United and J. Ray McDermott Inc. made escalating rival offers for a controlling interest in Babcock, and eventually wound up selling out to McDermott for $65 a share. Estimated profit for the lucky gamblers: about $30 million in six months...
...Charles J. Ogletree, a third-year Law School student and national chairman of the Black Law Students Association, told workshop participants it would be a mistake to trust the Supreme Court to defend minority rights...
...union spokesman Vincent J. Sirabella predicts that the student body will be politicized during the strike--which both sides say may last as long as ten weeks...