Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jamboree last weekend in Love County, Okla., was merry but with a sober purpose: raising money for the defense of Sheriff Wesley Liddell Jr., 47, and his son-in-law, Marietta policeman Roger Ray Hilton, 27. The two are charged with scheming to kidnap a suspected north Texas drug dealer and torture him with an electric curling iron to elicit information...
...addition, he said, some of the money would go into a "tipster fund" to encourage drug informants. Under federal law, a person who provides information that leads to the confiscation of drug-related property can receive 10 percent of the proceeds, up to a maximum...
During its last session, Congress appropriated money to hire 170 assistant U.S. attorneys solely to bring such cases. Three of them now work in Boston...
Students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grouped together this spring to form the May Fourth Foundation, which attempted to raise money to buy word processors and fax machines to send back to students in China. And students from the Boston area founded the China Information Center with the aim of gathering and spreading information about the prodemocracy movement...
...Before the crackdown, our major difficulty was in sending information back, sending money back, really trying to keep communication open," says Luo. But in recent weeks, he adds, police have been keeping a close watch on every telephone and fax machine...