Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requires that the state have on file the name of everyone who purchases a firearm, with the penalty for non-compliance a mandatory year in jail...
...loaded Colt .45 automatic at President Ford in Sacramento, Calif. She claimed to have endangered the life of the President -and thereby revived the national nightmare of political assassination -solely to win a new trial for her master and mentor, Charles Manson. The psychopathic guru had been sentenced to jail for life, along with three of his women followers, for the sadistic slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969. Somehow the act of threatening Ford made sense to Squeaky Fromme. Referring to the Manson "family," a Department of Justice official said: "They think that the people will...
...response, Shanker called a teachers' strike that lasted for 35 days and led to a nasty period of public hostility between New York's black community and the heavily Jewish teachers' union. The U.F.T. eventually won reinstatement of the teachers, but Shanker spent 15 days in jail for breaking the state law against strikes by public employees...
...women around the nation wondered why Sandra Good boasted that she was out to get them, Justice Department sources acknowledged that FBI agents are now keeping all known members of the Manson clan under surveillance. "We aren't going to try to throw them in jail," says one Justice Department official, "but, by God, we're going to know where they are, and if they are where the President is, they'll have a hell of a problem trying to get close...
...Cooper, who can scarcely work up the energy to articulate his lines, is an aggressive TV newsman. In the first hour he 1) rescued a child trapped on a cliff, 2) salvaged a broken-down silent-screen star, 3) rehabilitated a suicidal paraplegic ex-rodeo performer, 4) went to jail in defense of the newsman's right to protect his sources and 5) persuaded one of them to come forward and give evidence at a murder trial while 6) rescuing her from incipient alcoholism. As no more than a few seconds of screen time are devoted to the sermonettes...