Word: likelihood
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When U.S. District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott abruptly ended the 35-month confinement of Army Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. last week, the judge observed that he saw "no likelihood" that Calley would flee. Why should he? Under the terms of his sentence, he was comfortably confined to his $111-a-month, two-bedroom apartment at Fort Benning, Ga., where he passed the months watching television, building model airplanes, boning up on oceanography and ancient history through correspondence courses, growing vegetables and flowers in his backyard, and talking with his pet mynah bird. Calley, 30, has also enjoyed almost...
...pleas of guilty last week. Only then did he resign from the firm that had soared so high so fast since the election of 1968. He also quit as chairman and a director of the Bank of Newport, which he founded two years ago. Kalmbach now faces the likelihood that he will be disbarred, but even if he never practiced again, he would likely remain a wealthy man: he has sizable real estate holdings-mainly apartment houses and office buildings-in California and Hawaii...
...only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers increases the likelihood of finding out where they...
...different. After the miners voted overwhelmingly (81%) to strike, -Heath met with the Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million workers, including the miners, to attempt to resolve the crisis. He promised that if the miners settled, he would appoint a royal commission to hear their grievances. In all likelihood, he added, the commission would recommend an increase, but he could give no assurances that it would be retroactive to the March 1 expiration of the miners' contract...
While many Senators and Congressmen feel a need for comprehensive insurance, there is a lack of consensus about its structure and financing. There seems little likelihood that the total Administration plan will be adopted in the immediate future. But the Administration's new interest in health has increased the possibility of congressional action this year on coverage for at least catastrophic illness. Some Congressmen, in fact, are so certain that a bill will come to the floor that they are already preparing amendments to expand...