Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broke open and literally popped the surviving crew members out of the plane as it disintegrated and burned. Said a Union Parish sheriffs deputy: "Those guys are lucky to be alive, and thanks to the pot they are. But they're sure going to get to know our jail real well." They face up to ten years for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The fourth crew member was thought to be buried under the cargo...
...four classic purposes of imprisonment have been: 1) to deter others from committing crime, 2) to protect society from the criminal, 3) to rehabilitate the criminal, and 4) to give him his "just deserts." Today the first three are not persuasive. The prospect of jail does not seem to be a very forbidding deterrent. Society is obviously not safer but more dangerous these days, even though America's prisons and jails burst with a population of 500,000 inmates. Nearly all rehabilitation programs are well-meaning exercises in futility. That leaves reason No. 4, just deserts-punishment, social retribution...
...private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payments of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouth-pieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITT also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...
...private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouth-pieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITI also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...
Mercouri plays a fading film star who returns to her native Greece to appear in Medea and also in a TV film about her preparation for the role. As a publicity stunt she arranges to visit, in jail, an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who, like Medea, has committed infanticide. What with a demanding rehearsal schedule and the raging and pouting she inflicts on her director and her entourage, you would think the Mercouri character would have no time left to feel guilty about exploiting the half-mad murderess, but she does. Repeatedly she goes back into the prison...