Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ibrahim "simply did not want to go to Havana. He wanted to go to the U.S." He got his wish: even though none of the 232 people aboard the plane was hurt, Ibrahim will be charged with air piracy and will probably serve a minimum of 20 years in jail. Josh Dubow
...person." Heroin addict and layabout in the lower depths of Edinburgh, Renton steals from stores, locked cars, old-age pensioners' homes, his own mother's purse--all to support his "sincere and truthful junk habit." He blithely betrays his friends; his schemes help send two mates to jail and another into an early grave. When a baby in his shooting gallery suddenly dies, Renton's only impulse is to shoot up. He also smokes, talks dirty and blasts a dog's butt with BB-gun pellets...
They are due back in court on July 23 for a pre-trial conference. If convicted, the two could face up to two-and-a-half years in jail apiece...
...black-tie dinner to oppose domestic violence and, not least, to rub elbows with the Juice. With security provided by the Nation of Islam, the night was one of image repair for America's most dubiously innocent man. Attorney F. Lee Bailey, fresh from the slammer, pronounced his own jail stay "not so great." Simpson pal and chauffeur A.C. Cowlings seemed proud when a guest praised his driving. Outside Simpson's gates protesters clamored, but inside, Simpson charmed the antiviolence folks. If you can't beat them, have them over for dinner...
Second, consider the fact that recently I was the subject of a Gestapo-type arrest at five in the morning by scores of Harvard police charging me with multiple counts of threat and extortion brought by two members of CMES. I endured the hardship of nine days in jail, where I toiled in the kitchen from 5:30 in the morning until 6 in the afternoon every day, my name was defamed in the local and national media as an "extortionist" and it took me a taxing three months of legal and media battles until the D.A. dropped those charges...