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...making. He enlisted the aid of Lockheed's secret agent in Japan, Yoshio Kodama, a leader of the ultra-right wing nationalist faction of Japanese politics, a man with close ties to conservative elements of the Japanese ruling party, an unsavory figure who had served three years in Sugamo prison at the end of World War II as a suspected class A war criminal, an individual with known ties to the Japanese underworld. For his services in promoting the Tristar sale, as well as for other services rendered, Kodoma received from Lockheed approximately $7 million. The disposition of these funds...
...rushes forth to outduel the evil Count di Luna, but he spares the count's life and later gets stabbed for his trouble. At the end of Act III he races to rescue his adoptive mother Azucena; both end up in prison...
During the summer, Texas prison officials decided that the time had come. They installed a new wiring system in "Old Sparkey," the state's natural-oak electric chair. The electric chairs in Georgia and Florida were also rewired and got other minor repairs. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for their return to use. On the first day after the summer recess, the nine Justices announced that they would not reconsider their ruling of last July upholding the constitutionality of capital-punishment murder statutes in the three states.* The Justices forthwith lifted a stay that...
...immunity or plea bargaining to get their information, and they have found a new tool: the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statutes (RICO). Originally aimed at the Mafia, the laws provide for the seizure of certain of a convicted offender's assets in addition to fines and prison terms. The aim: to put the defrauders out of business as well as punish them...
Knocking about the Australian outback around the middle of the past century was an Irishman, more than half-crazed, called Daniel Morgan. Paroled from prison after six years of "hard labor"-not to mention sodomization, humiliation and deprivation-Morgan roamed the country stealing horses and robbing their riders. His only companion was an aboriginal boy named Billy, who taught him how to use a boomerang and live off the land like a bushman. Eventually Morgan killed a couple of policemen, and a fat ? 1,000 price was fixed on his head. By the time he ran up against...