Word: bails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't my will to be a rat. I was arrested after the FBI had wired my construction partner, this guy John Pastorella, for 18 months. I was in jail trying to make bail, and I believed I was going to be killed there, probably with the blacks carrying out the order. I got the word. And the next morning I called the FBI and told them to get me the hell out. I was scared to death. I was shakin'. I blame Scarfo. He's the guy who wanted to kill me. I'm 55 years...
Winnie Mandela, however, is free on minimal bail -- roughly $70 -- and pursuing an appeal that could take many months to be decided. Even if she loses, there is some speculation that State President F.W. de Klerk will pardon her rather than jail the wife of his main partner in negotiations to shape a multiracial regime. That partner, A.N.C. deputy president Nelson Mandela, took a mild line. He expressed confidence that his wife's name would eventually be entirely cleared and said he would continue talking to De Klerk...
...defendants did not appear. Defense lawyers said some out on bail evidently were afraid to come. One defendant said two others accused with him were still in the hospital being treated for injuries inflicted in torture sessions...
...rest of the semester, the state must. Officials in Sacramento promptly devised an emergency loan package, which the judge approved, and appointed an administrator to negotiate new employee contracts. Governor Pete Wilson, meanwhile, has appealed the decree, saying it sets a dangerous precedent by using state money to bail out schools...
...Doreen Flaherty, 27, a recovering crack addict from Garden Grove, Calif., remembers spending a week in jail after being arrested for possession of cocaine. "I kept crying in jail because I wanted to see my little girl," she says. "That's all that mattered to me." After she made bail, Doreen did not return home to her daughter but sought out a drug dealer instead. When a girlfriend tracked her down at the crack house, Doreen told the dealer to say she was not there. "How could you do this to your daughter?" the girlfriend asked. "I'm sorry...