Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuck by the informant's account of the $50,000 bounty on King. It is not clear whether he also confirmed that the money was paid to Ray. The committee plans to administer a lie-detector test to Ray about the tale; he will be removed from jail to testify at the hearings. But Kauffmann and Sutherland have both died, and their widows insist that their husbands had nothing to do with the murder of the civil rights leader...
...said: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts." Last week Jaworski decided to end his probe, with more questions unanswered than answered. The results are skimpy: four Congressmen facing disciplinary action, one former House member in jail and another former member facing trial for accepting gifts from Rice Dealer Tongsun Park...
...refugees frequently cite disaffection with Haiti's regime, although it has been liberalized somewhat under Papa Doc Duvalier's son Jean-Claude. "I can't say anything against the government or I go to jail," says Andre Gerard, 22, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by way of the Bahamas. Adds Ivon Louis, 27, "It's still the same thing, man. Papa and Baby are the same...
...down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences: a fine of $5,000 a day for the Times and jail for Farber until the notes are coughed up, plus a $100,000 fine for the Times and another six months in jail for Farber as well as fines against him totaling...
Miller began developing that blend early. When he was an infant, his storekeeper father moved the family from Bill's birthplace of Sapulpa, Okla., to Borger, a Texas Panhandle town so new that it had no jail; prisoners were chained to a log. Says Miller: "It was a life of Depression, Dust Bowl and frontier. But that environment creates strong individuals...