Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There is not much to protect the innocent. Laws permit searching without warrants, jailing without bail, trying without defense, and condemning without trial. If you look suspicious, associate with 'subversives,' or don't appeal to your neighborhood policeman, you can be seized without explanation. During one of many arbitrary street document checks, a young man was ordered by a guardsman to shave his beard. "He told me that I looked like a revolutionary, and that he'd jail me if I didn't remove it. So I shaved it--these guys are irrational but serious...
...Puck of the 1960s underground, the frizzy-haired, war-painted Yippie leader who preached revolution against the American Establishment. In 1974, when he jumped bail in New York City on charges of selling $36,000 worth of cocaine, Abbie Hoffman began nearly seven years as a flamboyant fugitive. He personally reported himself missing to the New York City police department. He threw a book-publishing party for himself at a Manhattan restaurant. And he even attended President Carter's Inauguration. Finally, after a last interview in hiding, with ABC's Barbara Walters, Hoffman, 44, gave up last week...
Hoffman was released last week without bail. On trial, at a date that has not yet been set, will be a mellower but still puckish Hoffman. One chapter of his autobiography describes the horrors of the six weeks that he spent in 1973 in the Tombs, a now closed prison in New York City. The chapter's title: "You Can't Have Your Coke...
...that he still enjoys the Kremlin's confidence. The crucial question: How much will the Soviets let Gierek negotiate away? The Soviets apparently approve Gierek's goal of trying to defuse the workers' political demands with offers of cash, and may well kick in some financial aid to bail Gierek...
...Tekere walked out of Salisbury's Chikurubi Prison, where he had been held for 14 days on charges of murdering a 68-year-old white farm manager. Tekere, who is also secretary-general ol Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) party, was released on $75,000 bail after a white judge accepted the Prime Minister's personal pledge that Tekere would stand trial...