Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood-soaked pajama top and his vengeful fathher-in-law cast doubt on that story, and last year Jeffrey R. MacDonald, 36, began serving three life terms in a California prison. Now, as a result of a 2-to-l decision last week by a U.S. appeals court in Richmond, MacDonald may become a free man once again. The reason: investigative delays violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial...
...doctor said he was rushing out to jog five miles. Unless released on bail, however, he must remain in jail, pending any appeal the Justice Department may decide to seek. MacDonald knows only too well that judicial relief can be short-lived. Once before, the Richmond-based court threw out the Government's case on the same speedy trial grounds. But the Supreme Court heard an appeal and MacDonald lost...
...most significant decision, Richmond Newspapers Inc. vs. Virginia, proclaimed for the first time that the First Amendment gives the press and public a right of access to criminal trials. The Justices seemed to be trying to reassure the press after last year's confusing Gannett decision, which, although occasioned only by a pretrial proceeding, was read by many lower courts as an invitation to close entire criminal trials...
...national orgy of hamburgers, French fries and junk food, quickly denounced it with such words as "irresponsible," "conspiratorial" and "slipshod." Said Dr. Donald M. Berwick of the Harvard School of Public Health: "The council is not acting in the best interests of the American people." Representative Fred Richmond of New York, chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition, even suggested that lobbyists for the food industry-particularly meat, dairy and egg producers-"must have been at work here...
...well be reversed by primary day; while voters may be souring on Carter, they have shown in primary after primary that they have not set aside their doubts about Kennedy's character. The Senator encounters the Chappaquiddick issue almost everywhere he goes. Last week in the heavily Polish Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, a crowd of several hundred mobbed him. Janet Tokarski presented him with a basket of colored Easter eggs, and an elderly man sprinkled him with rose water, to the momentary alarm of the candidate's Secret Service bodyguards. Nearby, however, Gus Makowski, 44, grumbled, "He's good...