Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case was the first in which the U.S. Government successfully used espionage statutes to convict an individual for providing classified information to the press rather than to a foreign power. "This will have a chilling effect on public discussion of important military matters," said Tony Rood, a member of Morison's defense team. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow disagreed. But he said he does hope the verdict will cut off leaks at their source: Government employees...
Colm Wilkinson and Roger Allam carry the show as Jean Valjean, the released convict seeking to escape his past, and Javert, the righteous police inspector who hounds him across France for nearly two decades. Patti LuPone, an American who won a 1980 Tony Award for her starring role in Evita, has powerful scenes as an unwed mother who in desperation becomes a prostitute. The real star, however, is Nunn's staging. He sometimes spoils one effect with the hasty arrival of the next, but his conceptions are clear and simple. Almost every manifestation of evil, from Valjean's skulking emergence...
...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
...this up," he told the Washington Post. "If anything, the prosecution has shown that they have faced up to their responsibilities to the accused and the court." Earlier this summer, Presser himself escaped indictment on the ghost-employee case when Justice officials ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him. They also cited Presser's role as an informant...
Along the way, he meets up with an escaped convict (who's still got the cuffs on his hands,) a Lexas waitress who wishes she could go to France, and her monstrous husband, who thinks the two of them have been fooling around...