Word: jailings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used as evidence against them. The agents deny any such thing, and so far, in every case, they have been upheld. To date, eight Chileans have been convicted or have pleaded guilty, and two were acquitted or cleared of the original charges. The other six wait in the federal jail, convinced that whether or not they were drug smugglers, they have been railroaded by Uncle Sam, who first helped overthrow the regime that tolerated them and then hijacked them out of their homeland. One federal agent concedes the difficulties involved. "There's so much money in narcotics that local...
...antagonistic public statements, and he joined Caramanlis as vice-premier and minister of external affairs when the regime fell. He counts a youngish (late forties to early fifties) group of progressive middle-class Greeks among his followers--most of whom actively resisted the dictatorship and suffered persecution, exile, jail, and torture. These people comprise, specifically, the NPF sector of the party, and a significant number of university professors and internationally known economists scatter...
...method of quickly and inexpensively coping with crime is to lock the outside of Houses all the time. Yet there are problems with this approach. Many students not only complain vocally about the jail-like atmosphere this would cause, but also question its effect on deterring crime...
...lived Alabama labor union, the Sharecroppers' Union, and had spent 12 years in prison after a shootout with white sheriffs that stemmed from his union activities. But the book turned out to be more than just a story about a man who had joined a union and gone to jail; it is a detailed account of 85 years of Nate Shaw's life, with the union and prison experiences serving as a central balancing point...
...price-fixing conspiracies. When Congress returns after the elections, the department will press it to classify antitrust violations as felonies rather than misdemeanors and increase the maximum prison sentence for such violations to five years, from one year at present. (Even that sentence is almost never imposed; the longest jail terms meted out to executives convicted in the notorious 1961 electrical-equipment price-fixing case, for example, were for 30 days.) "Executives are not in the throes of an irresistible impulse when they fix prices," Saxbe argues. "They violate the law deliberately...