Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Tzur, 53, former director-general of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1975 after pleading guilty to fraud, bribery, illegal currency transactions and the embezzlement of $3 million from a government holding company for tourism and industry that he headed...
...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...
...Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support of the country's powerful and legal Communist Party, was put upon to express its concern about Carrillo's arrest. As Carrillo admitted after he was taken to Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, "The longer I stay here, the more propaganda I am making for the Communist Party...
...Carrillo and his comrades should be charged with a relatively light offense-violating a law against membership in a party "submitting to an international discipline that proposes to establish a totalitarian system" in Spain. If tried and convicted, the Carabanchel Eight could get as much as six years in prison...
...That was when two petty thieves-Alfred Bello and Arthur Bradley-claimed that while trying to break into a nearby factory, they had seen Carter and Artis flee the bar. The burglars' testimony was central to the state's case and helped send Carter and Artis to prison for life...