Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about Kennedy's father, who made his fortune by a not very-in a not very good manner. He said he had speculated in wine. I don't know to what extent that is true." The night after Kennedy died, Marina saw Oswald in the Dallas city jail...
...raised "interesting questions about the racketeer influences on our eight vacation-minded judges." Garrison's statement raised something else: the judges charged him with criminal defamation, a misdemeanor that, in Louisiana, requires no jury trial. Garrison was convicted, sentenced to a $1,000 fine and four months in jail. Louisiana's highest court upheld the conviction...
When he is able to work, DeWitt Easter, 59, is a skilled plasterer who can earn $175 a week in Washington, D.C. But Easter is seldom out of jail and sober. An alcoholic whose father was an alcoholic, he has been arrested 70 times for public intoxication-a "crime" for which Washington arrests 44,000 people a year. While such police work tidies up the streets, the fact that 70% of the arrests involve repeaters like Easter suggests that Washington's anti-drunk laws are more punitive than preventive. And it is just this premise that has spurred some...
...American Civil Liberties Union, a young member of Dean Acheson's law firm named Peter Hutt is determined to find an escape from this maze by getting an appellate court to rule (as the Supreme Court did in 1962 regarding narcotics addicts) that it is unconstitutional to jail victims of a "disease' over which they have no control. As Hutt sees it, this might force Congres; to provide decent treatment facilities Unhappily for Hutt, Washington's Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King believes that Congress will fail to act. If Hutt wins, says King, drunks "will...
...numbered accounts in Geneva's Arab Commercial Bank, which is incorporated and operating under Swiss banking laws. Algiers asked the Geneva authorities to take it from there. When Arab Bank Director Zouheir Mardam refused to disclose the identity of the four account holders, Geneva police clamped him in jail...