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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, however, Dennis Banks' confrontation with the American system was scheduled to take place in a court in Custer, S. Dak. He was to appear for sentencing on his conviction of rioting and assault in connection with the burning of the Custer courthouse in 1973. Maximum sentence: 15 years' imprisonment. But Banks did not show up. He told friends he feared for his life if he was ever sentenced to prison. Then he vanished into the underground...
...became the principal defendant in a mass trial at the prison. Along with 19 other former members of the ousted military junta, the ex-dictator was charged with acts of high treason and insurrection that had subjected Greece to 7½ years of dictatorship, from 1967 to 1974. The maximum penalty for insurrection: death by firing squad...
Kanellopoulos' testimony undermined the charge of insurrection. But the accusations of high treason-for acting against the national interest-will probably be strengthened next week when Andreas Papandreou, head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, will reportedly name CIA officials as the colonels' coconspirators. The maximum penalty for high treason is life imprisonment, but the junta leaders are expected to get off with lighter sentences. Although extremists have called for retributive justice, most Greeks merely wish to see them judged under...
...economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote of 264 to 54, with all but five Tories abstaining The plan limits pay increases to a maximum of $13.20 a week, blocks the use of government funds to finance excessive wage settlements by the nationalized industries, and uses the price code to prevent private employers from passing on the cost of high settlements to the consumer. It also proposes strict cash limits on public spending...
...album, A Star Is Bought-out barely a month and selling briskly enough to have found a berth on the charts-is entirely devoted to scoring big on show business's own unlikely terms. Each of the record's 16 cuts is specifically designed for maximum commercial air play on a different kind of radio station. There is, for instance, a ragingly patriotic lament for country-and-western stations (in which the singer bitterly points out that "we play The Star-Spangled Banner at ball games, but still one team always loses") and for nostalgia stations a vintage...