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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that closed meeting, the Democrats decided that none of the four should be deprived automatically of any subcommittee chairmanship because of the allegations against them. The caucus did rule that Michigan's Charles C. Diggs, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for taking salary kickbacks from his staff, must face a vote of the entire caucus on whether he can remain as chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. So, too, must Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, indicted on bribery and other charges, if he wishes to keep his chairmanship of the Labor...
...liaison with Thorpe in the early 1960s, and it was this revelation that forced Thorpe to resign as head of the small but then increasingly influential Liberal Party. Thorpe's problems worsened last year, when a former pilot named Andrew Newton, who had served time in prison for shooting Scott's dog in 1975, charged that he had been hired by Thorpe and three others to kill Scott. Early in the Minehead hearings, the Crown produced witnesses who testified that Scott had threatened to tell all about his relations with Thorpe as long ago as 1965, and that...
Officials at Walpole Prison are refusing to allow student volunteers from Phillip Brooks House (PBH) to tutor prisoners since the closing of a section of the prison to outsiders following the November 15 murder of an inmate...
...This is not a normal situation but rather a last resort, pending some structural changes in the prison," Parnell said, adding a corrections official would announce the changes at the end of the week...
...think it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment," Peter Kohl '80, a PBH volunteer said yesterday. "I don't think it will improve things as much as it will cause a backlash of prison response...