Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captives. Another terrorist group freed Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, two weeks ago without exacting "any political price" -- or so the Bonn government insisted. Cordes' kidnapers had originally demanded freedom for the Hammadi brothers, two terrorists being held in Germany. But Abbas Hammadi is serving a 13-year prison term in Dusseldorf, and Mohammed Ali Hammadi is on trial in Frankfurt for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, a U.S. Navy diver...
...ease with which they have adapted to the discipline of send-them-a-simple-message politics. It was the Vice President who dominated the airwaves and lowered the level of the debate with a series of irrelevant and inflammatory issues, ranging from the Pledge of Allegiance to the Massachusetts prison-furlough program. Few, however, would describe Dukakis as waging a campaign of ideas, despite a recent laudable flurry of substantive speeches on defense policy and health issues. Within a week, the Massachusetts Governor both posed in an M-1 tank and flew halfway across the country for a photo opportunity...
...Johnson--dubbed "Honk" for his light skin--had a reputation as the toughest of outlaws in the toughest area of the Taylor homes. Although he did well in school, he received little encouragement and he kept up his renegade lifestyle until he finally got put in prison at age 35 for the armed robbery of a chicken shack. The others, like "Half-Man" Carter who would work three different jobs at a time just for something to do, or "Moose" Harper, who found religion, did the best they could...
...computer with a virus-like program that deleted more than 168,000 records of sales commissions. Burleson says he is innocent, but he was ordered to pay his former employer $12,000 in a civil case based on similar charges. If convicted, he could face ten years in prison...
Kleiman says he is focusing on pre-marital testing for HIV, reduction of heroin use and improving prison policies toward incarcerated drug addicts and AIDS victims as methods of reducing spread of the disease...