Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor Sargent delayed signing the extradition papers for five months. At any point during that time. Hakim could have followed the lead of the New York Black Panthers who jumped bail and fled the country. He did not. He stayed in Boston, and continued his work at the Foundation...
After conferring with his own staff of advisors. Governor Sargent signed the extradition papers on September...
Extradition is not an automatic operation. It is not even a legal imperative, but an agreement between governors or heads of state to return a person accused of a crime. Last spring. Sargent refused to send another black. Willie Ford, back to Alabama, placing him instead on executive parole, a legal form he created for the case. Under executive parole. Ford is free to continue to live in Massachusetts, so long as he lives within...
...years as Massachusetts secretary of state, White handily defeated Mrs. Hicks for the mayoralty. In 1970, Mrs. Hicks ran for and won ex-Speaker John McCormack's old seat in Congress. By last year White's popularity had slipped so badly that when he challenged Republican Francis Sargent for the governorship, he did not even manage to carry Boston. Before last month's non-partisan primary, White was already being counted out. But he placed a surprising first in the field of seven. The early oddsmakers may have seriously underestimated his power to make a comeback...
...Governor Sargent signed into law Wednesday an act that will prevent women from being served in taverns until...