Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington. He called the police, and thereby began the destruction of Richard Nixon's presidency. The survivors of Watergate will not be holding reunions. No one died at Watergate, of course, as the bumper stickers say-meaning, rather heavily, that Chappaquiddick was worse. But 25 people went to jail, and Nixon became the first President in Amen can history to leave the White House one step ahead of impeachment...
...couldn't miss in Cannes: it was both American and anti-American." As for Yol, this slow, powerful study of six Turkish prisoners on a short leave to visit their families was "directed" by its author, Yilmaz Güney, while he was being held in a Turkish jail on a murder charge that his supporters believe was politically motivated...
...witness had admittedly taken the law into his own hands and led a daring raid on court-protected property. Nonetheless, when he was sprung from jail on a temporary pass last week to testify in Washington on ways that farmers can be hurt by bankruptcy laws, Senators and Congressmen crowded around to shake his hand. To farmers in the dusty "bootheel" area of southeastern Missouri, and indeed to farmers all over the country, he is a hero, fighting a battle for the oppressed against unjust law. And what for? Soybeans...
...argued that it was her accountant's fault, but in 1980, an Italian court nonetheless convicted Sophia Loren, of having failed to pay $4,000 in taxes. She got a $14,200 fine and 30 days in prison. Loren, 47, stayed out of the country to evade the jail sentence (she paid the fine), but last week she finally returned to do her time-tempered by a measure of Italian eleganza. Loren was chauffeured by police in a white Alfa Romeo to Casa Circondariale, a pink-walled women's prison near her native Naples. Carrying a bouquet that...
...option of handing down prison sentences in excess of 20 years because each man was held responsible for all three attacks. The average penalty for the crime in Massachusetts is an 11-year term. The defendants received suspended sentences under which they would have to spend six months in jail. "Another case where the punishment fit the criminal, not the crime," said a spokesman for a local rape-treatment center after the trial ended...