Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tallahassee at 6:46 a.m. on Friday, May 18, when Governor Robert Graham signed two black-bordered death warrants. One was for Willie Jasper Darden, 45, a professional robber who had been convicted of murdering a furniture store owner in Lakeland, Fla., in 1973. Darden's lawyers soon won an indefinite stay of execution so that a federal judge could consider their argument that the prosecutor prejudiced the jury at Darden's trial by saying that the defendant "shouldn't be out of his cell unless he has a leash...
...grandfather. Seven years later Bert Lance and his friends bought control of the bank, and the hulking (6 ft. 4 in.) country slicker from Young Harris (pop. 544) helped turn the area into a prosperous carpet center with his high-risk loans to local small businesses. He soon parlayed his bank connections into a paper empire, tried unsuccessfully to succeed his friend Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia, took over the National Bank of Georgia and followed Carter to Washington as the President's Budget Director and closest confidant. But last week, a year and a half after being...
...father, the indictment says, "knowingly, willfully, and with intent to injure and defraud the bank" got him an unsecured loan of $45,000, which was "inadequately supported by credit information and collateral." A couple of months later, the indictment charges, LaBelle got a similar $45,000 loan. This was soon after Lance's $1 million gubernatorial campaign. Son David got a $34,530 loan from the bank the following year. Lance's financial statements at the time were "false and misleading," the indictment says. Lance prepared another financial statement in January 1977, the month he became Budget Director...
...gear would not have to be moved very far. Nixon's $80,000 federal pension, plus royalties from memoirs and television appearances, still enables him and Pat to live quite comfortably. They will soon move just one mile from San Clemente to Cypress Shores. A $650,000 five-bedroom home in this private compound has been acquired by Pal Charles ("Bebe") Rebozo, who plans to sell it soon to his old friends from the pleasant days in Florida and Washington...
...search went on, the holed-up Bees whiled away the time by watching television soap operas, playing cards, studying the rules of the senate and consuming more than $350 worth of liquor and cold food smuggled into their hideaway by trusted assistants. The ill-prepared band soon began to swelter in the small room. They shed their outer clothes, padded around in underwear, and began to get on each other's nerves. Noted Mauzy: "When you get nine egomaniacs together, all nine want to be chief and no one wants to be an Indian...