Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, not really. This week, Yankee outfielder Luis Polonia was given a two-month sentence for having sex with a minor. Once again, George's boys have managed to steal the headlines. The front page of Tuesday's New York Post read: "Jail Bait." Love that classy tabloid journalism...
...Besides Mobuto and his family, only 80 people in the country count. At any one time, 20 of them are ministers [in the government], 20 are exiles, 20 are in jail, and 20 are ambassadors. Every three months, the music stops and Mobuto forces everyone to change chairs...
...memorable. Harry had reached the U.S. through bizarre circumstances. Barely escaping his native Poland ahead of the Nazis, he finally fetched up in Rome, only to be arrested by Mussolini's police. Soon, he was approached by an Italian man and given instructions on how to walk out of jail, go to Genoa and get on a ship bound for freedom. His adviser mentions the name Billy Rose, which Harry hears as Bellarosa. Only later does he realize that the person who has organized and funded the network that saved his life is a famous, indefatigably vulgar and flamboyant Broadway...
...know full well what went on -- if not the details, then the essence. It is that we have seen how far even Deng, who we thought was a good guy, will go to keep power. It may seem strange -- we are used to executions -- but ten years in jail just for talking sends a powerful signal...
...operation went off with military precision. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in connection with a $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme, was taken aboard a jet owned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and flown to his long-postponed rendezvous with U.S. justice...