Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another of President Nixon's Watergate men was sentenced to jail last week. This time it was handsome, affable Jeb Stuart Magruder, who was given a ten-month minimum prison term for his entanglement in the Watergate affair (see story page 14). In his statement to Judge John Sirica after sentencing, Magruder confessed that the scandal was beyond his comprehension. Said Magruder: "You cannot measure the impact on this Administration or on this nation of Watergate...
Last week Magruder, 39, was back before Sirica, this time as a confessed felon. On June 4, the very day of the California state G.O.P. primary he might have won if the Watergate cover-up and his personal game plan had worked, Magruder will go to jail. The ten-month minimum sentence for his part in the scandal was stiffer than he expected after more than a year of cooperation with the prosecutors. His pretty wife Gail could not hold back the tears, but Magruder kept his composure as he read a prepared statement to an impassive Sirica...
...only are most of its 881 residents law-abiding clerics, but there are 155 Swiss guards and blue-suited security men to police the 108 acres of the tiny country. That works out to about one peace officer for every 4.7 men of God. The Vatican has no jail, and the occasional pickpocket caught plying his trade in St. Peter's Square is normally turned over to Roman authorities...
...deep and abiding faith in the American system was reaffirmed Sunday, April 28, in the verdict in the Mitchell-Stans trial. That is, a person with money and/or political clout does not go to jail...
...federal grand jury about his role in directing Donald Segretti, the political dirty trickster of Nixon's 1972 campaign. Chapin said that he would appeal his case to the Supreme Court if need be. (Chapin is the fifth former White House aide or consultant to be sentenced to jail. Three others-John W. Dean III, Frederick LaRue and Jeb Stuart Magruder-have pleaded guilty to taking part in the Watergate cover-up and are awaiting sentencing...