Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was only a limited anti-war movement then, especially in comparison to the outrage expressed in the '60s, and if students were fleeing to Canada or opting for jail sentences instead of fighting in Asia, the rest of the campus was not aware of it, he says. The most well-known Cold War reversal, or perhaps awakening, in the Class is probably that of Daniel Ellsberg '52. As a freshman he campaigned for a Progressive Party candidate for Senate. But revelations about Stalinism influenced Ellsberg and other members of the Class. "Radicals were put on the defensive in those...
...touching confusion of Watergate burglar Rolando Martinez: "There I was, a Cuban, in contact with the Navy, with the Coast Guard, with the FBI, with the CIA, with all the authorities. Suddenly I found myself in jail. Where was the country...
...banker who can write is unusual enough. A banker who starts writing novels in jail, and transmutes global finance and oil politics into plausible thrillers about world economic collapse -well, there is only one: Paul Erdman. His third novel, The Crash of '79, is in its 25th week on the bestseller lists, has been bought by Paramount for a movie, and is diverting not only ordinary readers but also corporate executives and government officials, who assure each other that its forecast of doom will not come true. Certainly not. Of course...
...projects around the world. But in 1970 several officers in the bank's trading department illegally used $40 million of depositors' funds to speculate in commodities futures. Though no depositors lost money on the deals, Erdman, as the bank's president, was clapped in a Basel jail along with six other officers. Ten months later he was permitted to post bail, and left Switzerland-presumably forever. He was later tried in absentia and given an eight-year prison sentence that he faces if he ever returns...
Physical health is not the only benefit reported by running addicts. Runners who push themselves beyond three miles or so describe with surprising consistency a feeling of euphoria that would be worth five years in jail if it came from plant resins...