Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sloppy about his personal finances, with a careless disdain for paying bills and taxes that hurt him during the campaign (and cost him a month in jail in 1972), Washington has not profited financially from a lifetime of politics. His first marriage, to his high school sweetheart, ended in divorce in 1955 after ten years and no children; he is now engaged to Mary Ella Smith, a Chicago teacher he has known for 20 years...
Former President Galtieri goes to jail for being too candid...
...rally is also scheduled to coincide with similar demonstrations being held today at Dartmouth. Columbia, Williams, and Northwestern. The American Committee on Africa has called for the rallies to support six Black South African revolutionaries, now in jail, who blew up a South African synfuel plant...
...cocaine simply a public health concern. Coke users increasingly indulge their habit in casual defiance of the law. The very possession of cocaine is illegal in every state and a felony in 33. Possible sentences range widely, from a $3,000 fine in Delaware or 90 days in jail in West Virginia to life in prison in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New York and Texas; federal law provides for up to a year in prison. The penalties for dealers are, of course, stiffer; they can get a life sentence in twelve states and up to 15 years if convicted on federal...
...mystique seems in part to derive from breaking the law. "The risk taking is luring them in," says Antoinette Helfrich, coordinator of the University of Colorado's busy coke-abuse clinic. Even when Steve, 30, a Miami land salesman, was arrested for possession and found himself in jail overnight, it was, like, you know, a real trip. "I was with vagrants, drunks and car thieves," he says. "It was unreal, bizarre, like The Twilight Zone. "The glamour of outlawry, with the ante upped considerably, is also an attraction for many dealers and even some smugglers. Says a DEA official...