Word: transfering
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...largest transfer of convicts begins-but all is not forgiven
...loss of tourist dollars, the Mexican government last year proposed a prisoner exchange. The U.S. Senate ratified a new treaty between the two countries, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on Oct. 31. Among the treaty's terms: Americans now imprisoned in Mexico would be eligible for transfer to U.S. jails, provided they had more than six months to serve on their sentences, had not been convicted of a political offense or breaking immigration laws and, a key condition, would not contest their Mexican convictions in U.S. courts. Parallel provisions would hold for the 1,200 Mexicans locked...
Last week what U.S. Consul General Vernon McAninch billed as the largest transfer of prison inmates in history began. Eight American public defenders had spent three days in Mexico advising the 235 eligible inmates of their rights once they returned to U.S. soil. By week's end two chartered flights had touched down in San Diego, delivering the first 127 American prisoners-including 27 women, one with an 18-month-old baby girl. The rest are expected to arrive in transfers scheduled for later this month and early next year...
...basis for majority rule in Rhodesia, his air force and army were striking the mightiest blow yet against antiregime black guerrillas based in neighboring Mozambique. The military attacks, which were disclosed last week, cast serious doubts on the sincerity of Smith's conciliatory statements calling for a negotiated transfer of power to the country's black majority. Suspicions increased when Smith unexpectedly convened the negotiations late last week (about seven days ahead of schedule) even though Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-the two key moderate black leaders-would not be at the conference table...
...bishop: "Rhodesian whites, and I include the Prime Minister, simply don't realize the depth of feeling aroused among the Africans by the two attacks." Fearing that any association with Smith would discredit them among Rhodesia's blacks, Muzorewa and Sithole might want to reconsider any transfer of power to which the Prime Minister was a signatory...