Word: leon
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Last week, with a New Jersey courtroom for a stage, Jones demonstrated that he had lost none of his talent for theatrical invective. "You are not a righteous judge!" the defendant bellowed at Essex County Judge Leon Kapp, who sentenced him to a near maximum 2½-to-3-year prison term and a fine of $1,000 for illegally possessing the guns. "You represent a crumbling structure of society!" yelled Jones, who had earlier earned a 30-day contempt sentence for his outbursts in court...
...Leon Myrianthopoulos, Dartm...
...Died. Leon Mba, 65, President of the seven-year-old West African republic of Gabon; of cancer; in Paris. As a young nationalist firebrand, Mba (pronounced um-bah) gave his French rulers so many blisters that they accused him of cannibalism in 1938 and sent him into exile. On his return in 1946, he was so well behaved that he was boosted into the presidency after independence in 1960 and rescued by French paratroops when military men attempted a 1964 coup...
...Shachtman, one-time personal secretary of Leon Trotsky and a founder of the American Communist Party, will speak on "Fifty Years of Soviet Rule: Workers' Paradise Lost?" at 8 p.m. tonight in Burr...
...Leon H. Keyserling, former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, called Saturday for a two-part program to end poverty in the United States--guaranteed federal full-employment, and a minimum annual income...