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...long as the inmates held any hostages, officials were in an impossible position, they say. Moreover, dealing with prisoners in this situation only encourages more such seizures. Some uprisings have been quelled when authorities simply refused to negotiate with inmates until hostages were released. Last February, Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel rushed to a state prison where inmates had seized two guards and threatened to kill them. He faced the rebels and said: "We've shown our good faith by coming here; now you show your good faith by releasing them. If you don't, I'm leaving." After 20 minutes...
...used fire truck for an impoverished Indian reservation in Nebraska. An Illinois chapter has developed a highly successful ex-offenders employment service. In North Carolina, Jaycee convicts have toured nearby schools to warn students of the dangers of drugs, and inmate Jaycees in Washington State and Maryland have helped push prison-reform bills through the state legislatures...
...Kennedy Institute for analysis. Since then, nearly 6,000 more people have turned out for similar sessions at community centers and religious schools. All were asked, though not required, to pay $5 to help cover the cost of the program, which is sponsored in part by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Almost all did, for the screening, even if it should lead to further testing and therapeutic abortion, is a bargain compared with the agony of having a Tay-Sachs child, to say nothing of the astronomical medical bills that accumulate before the child dies...
Actually, Fefferman has already had a reasonably long career as a mathematician. He began his studies in earnest at age nine: elementary math, he discovered, could not explain college physics. He started taking a few courses at the University of Maryland, near his home in Silver Spring, at twelve. He skipped high school and formally entered the university at 14, He wrote his first major paper at 15; Princeton awarded him a doctorate at 19. He taught there for a year before going to Chicago...
...turned the office of former Speaker of the House John McCormack into an influence-peddler's paradise; in Manhattan. When indicted in 1970, Voloshen initially denied that he had illegally used his longtime friendship with the Speaker to obtain favors for clients. The dapper door opener, a Maryland attorney with New York offices, later pleaded guilty to a slew of offenses, all committed without McCormack's knowledge. Among the transgressions: lobbying to obtain reduced sentences for convicted racketeers. Because he cooperated with authorities, Voloshen was given a suspended sentence and fined a mere $10,000-$40,000 less...