Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Indians were outraged when Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, precipitately arrested George Fernandes, 43, a Socialist from Goa who is president of the All India Railwaymen's Federation, and other union leaders while they were in the midst of negotiations. One of the unionists died in jail of a heart attack. Mishra claimed authority for his harsh action under India's Maintenance of Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention. Opposition forces in Parliament, including the pro-Moscow Communists who usually support Indira Gandhi, decried the antistrike measures. Nonetheless, when they offered a no-confidence motion...
...England, the right schools, a grand tour of Europe at the age of 14 and a trust fund set up by her wealthy, doting parents that yielded her thousands of dollars annually. Yet last week Bridget Rose Dugdale, 33-year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued...
Last October Heaton and Rose were convicted of stealing $200,000 worth of paintings and silverware from the country home of Rose's parents. At the trial, Rose raged at her father, "I love you, but I hate everything you stand for!" Heaton was sent to jail for six years, but the judge let Rose off with a two-year suspended sentence and the observation that the risk of her committing any further crime was "extremely remote"-even though Rose warned the court that the verdict had turned her from "an intellectual recalcitrant into a freedom fighter...
...life," said Cousins, relating how Ron persuaded Sarah to go back to Columbia. Last week, however, as Ron began a ten-year sentence, Sarah found herself charged with bringing an illegal alien into the country, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of $2,000 and five years in jail. Cousins says: "She was taking Ron back to justice. I'm backing...
...then. Bob, and John realizes this, is to continue to try to cut our losses. Now we have to take a look at that course of action. First it is going to require approximately a million dollars to take care of the jackasses who are in jail. That can be arranged. That could be arranged. But you realize that after we are gone, and assuming we can expend this money, then they are going to crack and it would be an unseemly story. Frankly, all the people aren't going to care that much...