Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator in all the hearings I liked best." She appealed to him, and during the congressional recess Weicker went to Danbury twice to meet with the prisoners. He said that he was "upset to see the men who are least able to afford it sitting in jail while all the others wander around the country." Though the Senator added that he could make no promises, he has turned over minutes of his conferences to the committee staff...
...Losses. The I.R.A. has now all but lost its command structure. Two weeks ago, the Proves' chief of staff, Seamus Twomey, 54, was picked up by the Irish Republic garda as he slept in a farmhouse across the border. Now only one veteran I.R.A. leader remains outside of jail: David O'Connell, 35, a former schoolteacher and senior political strategist. Because of the heavy losses, the Proves' cumbersome old-style military organization has been abandoned for five-and six-man cells or "active service units," which operate independently and take their orders directly from what remains...
...Tenafly, a harassed family man who is just another employee at an outfit called Hightower Investigations, Inc. ABC's Griff (Lome Greene) is an ex-cop while in NBC's Faraday and Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well as his crooked quarry. ABC even has an ex-human: Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man, rebuilt after a near-fatal plane crash into a cyborg (cybernetic organism, that is, with two legs, one arm and one eye that...
...first episode: to prove that men are allowed to pick up women while women who pick up men are presumed to be prostitutes, Danner gets herself arrested. At her trial the next day, the barely mussed carefully made-up liberated lady is so stupefied by her night in jail that she is unable to open her mouth, whereupon hubby gallantly wins the case for her. Sic transit Gloria Steinem...
...records of more than 30 companies have been subpoenaed. "My own sense of priorities," says Kauper, "puts a heavy emphasis on price fixing and merger activity aimed at reducing competition. Price fixing is a crime, and corporate officials who engage in it ought to go to jail...