Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouthpieces 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...
...with his tale of the hit list. It included, besides Judge Eidson, the wounded family friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, who at the first trial had fingered Davis as the gunman, and Judge Tom Cave, who had originally denied him bail and thus forced him to spend 15 months in jail. And, of course, Priscilla...
...could say about Gary Tison except that he inspired a remarkable loyalty from his family. Imprisoned at the age of 25 for holding up a grocery store, he used a meeting with his wife Dorothy as an opportunity to escape from a visiting room in Arizona's Final County Jail...
...Times backed "Our Man in Jail" all the way, paying heavy fines and providing counsel. Papers across the country rallied around, insisting that if reporters were forced to reveal their sources, news gathering would be impaired. Meanwhile, Farber's lawyers tried manifold appeals to New Jersey courts, to the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally to a federal court in Newark, N.J., seeking a writ of habeas corpus (for unlawful imprisonment) to get Farber released...
...quit his night bank job and devote more time to writing. His other job, as a G55 clerk administrator at the Army Reserve unit at the 42nd Street Armory, ended in 1962 when he resigned after the department was plowed by scandal and a fellow worker was sent to jail for taking bribes. The episode is similar to the far more incriminating and candid one described in Fools...