Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appalled to read that in response to an ultimatum by the kidnapers of the U.S. consul general in Guadalajara, Mexico, 30 prisoners were released from jail and flown to Cuba...
...Houston Astros, Gerald Bishop, 42, of Redding, Calif., picked up a .30-cal. carbine last week and pumped 17 shots into his television set. Several of the shots went through the wall. A terrified neighbor called police, and they promptly arrived to arrest Bishop. Facing one year in jail for disturbing the peace, Bishop offered only the simplest explanation: "Didn't you ever want to shoot your TV?" Said a police spokesman: "Unusual, isn't it?" Perhaps the police in Redding do not watch much television...
...governments, that would be highly embarrassing to the U.S. if disclosed. But judging from the activities that Hunt and Liddy are known to have engaged in, it seems more likely that disclosure would merely have been politically embarrassing to Nixon. Every member of this unit is now either in jail or under grand jury investigation, and their activities seem a proper subject for thorough exploration...
...contributions must be reported to the state's board of elections, and any donation of more than $2,500 from a single source is illegal. Mills' office never reported the contribution. A prosecution for such an apparent violation could have led to penalties of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...issue that particularly worries Lanusse is Cÿmpora's promise to extend amnesty to the hundreds of guerrillas now in Argentine jails. "If Cÿmpora opens the jail doors completely," Lanusse warns, "it will be at his own risk...