Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system is not unusual, but in the U.S. it is more common among towns further to the west. Older eastern towns have been reluctant to forego their traditional structures for modern management methods. Cambridge made the switch in the early '40s, after a controversial Irish mayor went to jail for taking kickbacks from an architectural firm. And for two decades afterwards the system indeed featured a strong city manager, as it was meant to. Between 1942 and 1964 the city council changed Cambridge's top executive only once...
...debate on the treaties in order to counter suspicions in the U.S. that the plebiscite was rigged, and he got a bit more than he bargained for. Political dissidents took advantage of the relaxation in the atmosphere to mount criticisms of the regime that could have landed them in jail or in exile only a few months earlier. Nonetheless, what Panamanians had dubbed "the little summer of free expression" produced a clear-cut victory for Torrijos on the canal treaties. By Friday the final count was in: 506,805 si, 245,177 no, a 2-to-1 mandate...
...chill, predawn darkness one day last week, 80 Massachusetts state policemen fanned out through Boston and its suburbs, ringing doorbells, rousing residents and hauling off to jail 22 surprised and discomfited citizens. Among those indicted: six attorneys, eleven real estate operators, four public insurance adjusters, one police officer and a retired fire chief. By week's end a total of 26 men had been arraigned in Suffolk County superior court on charges as varied as fraud, bribery and murder. But all of them were alleged to have committed one crime: arson. They were accused of contracting with landlords, financially...
...Marxist "officials," who have temporarily gone underground, and the Provisionals, who carry on the struggle for Eire Nua (a New Ireland) on behalf of Ulster's Catholic minority. Since 1969 the Provos have killed 1,800, including 460 policemen or soldiers. But 1,000 Prove supporters are in jail, and the Ulster Catholics, who once idolized them, are weary of violence...
...Charlie Citrine, the troubled, intellectual narrator of his novel Humboldt 's Gift, Saul Bellow is fighting over money with a former spouse. Charged with being $11,150 behind in alimony payments to his third wife, Susan Classman Bellow, the Nobel prizewinning author was sentenced to ten days in jail last week by a Chicago circuit court judge. According to his ex-wife's lawyer, Bellow, 62, earned over $450,000 last year. He has posted a $55,000 bond in order to gain time to appeal the decision. "There's no way in hell...