Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country." All three men are also overshadowed by the memory of Bishop, the popular former Prune Minister who has been locally regarded as a martyr ever since he was executed during last October's traumatic coup. While his former deputy and usurper, Bernard Coard, still languishes in jail awaiting trial, T shirts depicting Bishop are selling for $15 apiece in a small second-floor room now known as the Maurice Bishop Memorial Center. Yet the New Jewel Movement remains coy about its political plans. Small wonder, then, that when Professor Adams asked the islanders whom they would like...
SENTENCED. Roger Gauntlett, 41, an heir to the Upjohn pharmaceutical fortune, who had pleaded no contest to a charge of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter, 14; to a year in jail and five years of "chemical castration" with Depo-Provera, which decreases the male sex drive and is manufactured by Upjohn; in Kalamazoo, Mich. With the drug, said Circuit Court Judge Robert Borsos, "it is now possible to castrate a man and at a future time reverse the effects." Both sides plan to appeal...
IMPRISONED. Larry Flynt, 41, pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher; for 15 months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, "I'm crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing." When he yelled, "Give me more!" Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months...
...While in jail he was tortured, and because of unsanitary conditions in his cell, he developed severe dental problems, skin allergies, and lost all his hair...
bank robberies takes place in the seven-county purview of the FBI'S Los Angeles office. The last day without a bank holdup was Oct. 4,1979. Says Lieutenant Joe Patterson of the Los Angeles County sheriffs robbery squad: 'The word is out on the street, in jail, among junkies: 'Hey, man, if you're hurting, go to the bank.' " Even as bank robberies are generally declining in the U.S. (down 11% during the first half of 1983), they are growing more rampant in Los Angeles (up 18% last year). The Friday before Christmas...