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...screens before: a Soviet leader conducting a press conference in Moscow, live. It was not exactly American-style-the questions were mostly written, not shouted by reporters-but it was close enough to arouse feelings of déjà vu. The Kremlin apparently wanted to make the maximum publicity splash for its official reply to President Reagan's Euromissile proposals. So the Soviet foreign ministry began notifying reporters on Wednesday, hours after Reagan had stopped speaking, that Andrei Gromyko, the U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister, would meet with them at 11 a.m. Saturday, Moscow time. The timing presumably...
Williams gets the maximum...
...Chicago's U.S. District Court to be sentenced for his part in a bungled conspiracy to bribe then Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada. If anyone was moved by his illness, it was not U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall, who slapped Williams, 68, with a provisional maximum sentence: 55 years in prison and a fine...
...Salvador, but only if the U.S. states in writing that it would seek "unconditional discussions" between the government and the rebels and would limit the number of U.S. military advisers in that nation to the 55 that the Administration has in the past considered a self-imposed maximum...
Actually, Congress did increase the maximum fine from $10,000 to $100,000 in 1982, and the courts are beginning to impose tougher sentences. In 1972, only 37% of convicted tax cheaters went to jail; they stayed an average of eleven months. Last year 58% were put behind bars for terms averaging 26 months. On the state level, light sentences are still the rule. In Massachusetts, for example, the longest jail term for each count of tax evasion is five years, but first-time offenders receive an average sentence of six months-and only eleven evaders were packed...