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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nathaniel Cater, 27, the most recent of the 28 young blacks found slain in Atlanta. Williams showed no emotion as Magistrate Albert Thompson read the decision upholding the arrest. Only later, as he was transferred back to his 6-ft. by 12-ft. isolation cell in Fulton County Jail, did the suspect comment: "This is ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case of the Green Carpet | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...TRIO--Zod, Ursa, and Non--are none other than the criminals-in-chief of Superman's home planet, Krypton. At the end of Part I, they were imprisioned by our hero's father and doomed to float about the galaxy in a funky outer-space jail cell. Freed, they decided to take over earth and rule forever, needless to say, in a most unpleasant manner...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Look! In the Motel! It's... | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...unbelievable that a judge would let an admitted murderer out of jail because he believes the murderer's lawyer gave him poor advice [June 8]. The fact remains that the murderer is a murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 29, 1981 | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...issue. "Suppose," asked the opposing lawyer, "a man who was not an artist had written this letter, would you say it was a proper letter?" Wilde answered: "A man who is not an artist could not have written that letter." Which was true and witty. And Wilde went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Don't Write Any Letters | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...Nazis, as having told a Uruguayan journalist that Timerman had interfered with Wiesenthal's decades-long pursuit of Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi physician who performed deadly experiments on Jews at Auschwitz. Buckley claimed that Wiesenthal had also characterized Timerman as a "leftist" who had been sent to jail not because he was Jewish, but because he was "accused of being in favor of terrorism." In Israel last week, Wiesenthal said the latter statement had been quoted out of context, though he had once mistakenly thought that Timerman had hindered the search for Mengele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, the Timmerman Affair | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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