Word: parolee
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Many Americans harbor an unwholesome and even dangerous contempt for the justice system. Neither criminals nor victims have much faith in its workings: the one class does not fear it much, and the other does not trust it. A mugger leaves a victim crippled, life blighted, and bound to ruinous...
A hard, punitive glare has become respectable for liberals who in years past were all for the Warren Court's protections of the offender. One index of the respectability of the tougher line: Edward Kennedy, who owns the most liberal voting record in the Senate, is the co-author...
Recaptured and later paroled, Tison was accused of a parole violation in 1967 when he passed a bad check. Instead of appearing at the court hearing, he overpowered the prison guard escorting him and shot him dead with his own pistol. That put Tison into the Arizona State Prison in...
The victory, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, came only after some important private maneuvering by Jim Wright. Although he personally favored keeping the embargo against Turkey, he felt that as Democratic leader he must back the Administration's pro-Turkey policy. First he tried to draft a compromise...
So Martin pulled the rip-cord yesterday. His health may have been the reason, or maybe he just couldn't take any more of Steinbrenner, a man who should be seeing his parole board, not running the Yankees. And so the Yankees have lost the man whom even personal enemies...