Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home. Israel's Attorney General Aharon Barak decided that the matter was serious enough to justify calling in the state prosecutor to investigate further. He also decided that Mrs. Rabin bears responsibility for the accounts; if found guilty in court, she could face up to three years in jail or a heavy fine. Confronted with the evidence on the eve of an election campaign, Labor Party members began demanding Rabin's resignation...
...weekly, suggested that he was obstructing a police investigation into the disappearance of the Earl of Lucan, accused of murdering his children's nanny. Private Eye has since conceded that its story was inaccurate, but Goldsmith is still suing for criminal libel, which could land the editor in jail...
...they are not to hang separately, there is another reason which Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Myron Weiner pointed out last week. Weiner had been in India at the time of the elections and had the opportunity to speak with some of the politicians. Apparently, during their time in jail, many, particularly Jan Sangh and Socialist members, had discussed their views with each other. For some, it was the first non-acrimonious, honest dialogue they had had in years. It helped them to find common ground, which they might not have, had they just been contesting elections. The Janata party...
...office last week, Bhutto proffered "a warm embrace, a handshake" to the opposition. He offered to lift the state of emergency, release political prisoners and relax press censorship if the National Alliance would promise an end to "agitational politics." Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, the only prominent opposition leader not in jail, called the proposal "political blackmail." Said he: "By trying to bargain with the opposition on the question of human rights, Bhutto is attempting to strengthen his rule over the country." With the politicians locked in a dangerous standoff, some observers feared that the next response might come from the army...
Most significantly, the compromise bill envisions a novel approach to punishment under guidelines to be established by a Federal Sentencing Commission. A narrow range of jail terms and fines is to be set up for each specific crime, and judges will be required to record their reasons for each sentence. Either side can appeal any divergence from the guidelines...