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...shot three times in the body, then twice in the head, also at close range. The nine shots meant that White had reloaded his revolver after killing the mayor. At his arraignment, a controlled but subdued White asked for more time to hire a lawyer and decide how to plead to charges of first-degree murder. He was given until this week...
Federal prosecutors charge that Estes was also involved in eight or ten other deals. But after negotiations with Estes and his lawyers, the Justice Department decided to let him plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the Government, a blanket charge covering tax evasion and mail and wire fraud. He faces a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail. Yet, through the same sort of sharp bargaining that made him his fortune, Estes is expected to be sent back to prison for only a couple of years at most...
...major example is new York City. When the fiscal crisis came crashing down three years ago, the city had to plead with its employees' pension funds for a bail-out. Basically, the city was penalized for providing more social services than anyone else: tuition-free colleges, welfare payments above rock-bottom poverty level and so forth. Blatant mismanagement gratly contributed to the city's problems. But the main feature of the crisis was New York's scuba-diving tax base, resulting from the flight of industrial capital. Companies fled for many reasons, ranging from the ones which relocated in Stamford...
FREE PATTY plead T shirts and bumper stickers by the thousands in California. They are visible evidence of a rapidly growing movement to win the release of Patricia Hearst from the federal correctional institution at Pleasanton, Calif., where she is serving a seven-year term for bank robbery. Every weekend in San Diego, 50 volunteers canvass shoppers at supermarkets, collecting signatures on petitions to President Carter. Similar efforts are under way across the country, and a leader of the campaign claims that 40,000 people have signed pleas for clemency. The White House and the Justice Department have received...
...streets. The police start worrying more about muggers and murderers. The constitutionality of the law is challenged. The hookers return, like the tide. Police chiefs tend to sound like a gloomy Greek chorus about this endless cycle. The revolving door of the court system is expensive and fruitless. Prostitutes plead guilty; the judge slaps down a fine and lets them go. To pay the fine, they have to turn more tricks and soon wind up back in court...