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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the group was killed and five were extradited to West Germany in 1975 after taking hostages at the West German Embassy in Stockholm. One of the five later died of injuries, and the others remain in prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killer Surveilled Palme Before Shooting | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...tore" a woman's aorta and "improperly repaired" it. Also listed are 24 counts of dereliction of duty for performing unauthorized operations. If he is convicted on all counts, the surgeon, who was commissioned in December 1982, faces dismissal from the Navy and a maximum of 21 years in prison. Meanwhile, 15 of Billig's former patients or dependents of former patients have sued the Federal Government for $75.7 million in malpractice claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Naval Surgeon in the Dock | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only intended to improve relations between his homeland and his adopted country. Nevertheless, he became the first American to be convicted of spying for China, and faced life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: A Spy's Grisly Solution | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...years after the U.S. promised to stimulate foreign investment in the island through tax credits, only two such efforts have been made: a business selling nutmeg kits that failed and a factory making wooden toys that closed after four months. Its owner was sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding the U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Grenada, Apocalypso Now | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

There are signs that the relentless focus of the Western press is no longer the blessing it once was for Anatoli Shcharansky. Only two weeks after his release from nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Shcharansky seemed to have more on his mind than his prison experiences. He revealed that after his arrival in West Germany, he promised his wife Avital a vacation, delayed because of the demands the media were making on his time. "I can tell you very frankly that it harms me from going deeper in our personal family life, which we want to start as soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dissidents: Better Late Than Never | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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