Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hakim, born 36 years ago in St. Louis, has spent almost half his life in the joint. In 1951 he, or more precisely. Albert Bradford, was incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to serve three concurrent life sentences for robbery and two charges of rape. He was 16 years...
Thus, as George Jackson was later to do in California, 16-year-old Albert Bradford sold whatever legal rights of self-defense he had in the Missouri court system for the promise of a deal. Like Jackson, he was to discover that the promise was not merely false but almost fatal...
...Missouri was doing some book-cleaning...
...unemployed Americans. The room was still as he read his ten-paragraph withdrawal statement beneath television lights. Half a dozen of Bayh's Democratic Senate colleagues were on hand -Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Iowa's Harold Hughes, Minnesota's Walter Mondale, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Mississippi's John Stennis and Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. None of Bayh's erstwhile rivals for the presidential nomination appeared, however...
...twelve cost-cutting measures were rejected in the worst string of defeats for the doves since disenchantment with the Viet Nam War and huge cost overruns first focused congressional attention on Pentagon spending. By week's end, the doves were so demoralized that Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton proposed a "victory party" when he lost a floor fight by only nine votes...