Word: prison
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Jones did not learn of Biko's death until he was transferred from solitary confinement to a maximum-security prison six months later. Now 46, he is a businessman involved in black economic initiatives and remains active in the struggle to uncover the truth about Biko's death...
...Taborsky's notebooks, Carnahan and a Florida Progress officer filed for the same patent. But the U.S. Patent Office in 1992 granted two patents to Taborsky. Infuriated, the university appealed to the district court judge, who ordered Taborsky to assign his patents to the university or be sent to prison. When Taborsky balked, he was sentenced to 3 1/2 years. Jennifer, exhausted by the legal battles, left him. "I decided that the case was more important than our marriage," says Taborsky...
...incident as a cry of alienation. The New York Daily News, working on a tip from a psychiatrist, suggested that the assailant was William Tager, a disturbed man who believed the media were beaming messages at him. If so, Rather has reason to be thankful. Tager is in prison for a 1994 shooting of an NBC stagehand...
...White House spokesman Mike McCurry says the President stands by his testimony. Why did the Arkansas businessman recant and open himself up to perjury charges? According to ex-wife Susan, who is in jail for refusing to testify on Whitewater, he is lying to avoid an 84-year prison term. But McDougal, who has a history of mental illness and is facing pressure from prosecutors, is far from the ideal witness. "If I were Kenneth Starr, I wouldn't be happy to rely on McDougal," TIME's Jeff McAllister says. "He has changed his story several times. Most Whitewater reporters...
...mixed-race jury convicted two black men of violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Jewish scholar who was stabbed to death during the 1991 Crown Heights race riots. Although a sentence has not yet been handed down, Lemnick Nelson, 20, and Charles Price, 43, face life in prison. After a mostly black jury acquitted Nelson and Price in an earlier state criminal trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic Jew, was randomly attacked...