Word: portland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Increasingly, however, the justification for plea bargaining as a necessary evil is being questioned. Most observers agree that certain overburdened urban jurisdictions would grind to a halt without it. But in two fair-sized cities, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans, district attorneys claim that they have been able to get stiffer sentences without backlogging the court docket by cutting down on plea bargaining. According to New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, when he limited plea bargaining, the city's criminal court judges complained that "they would have to spend a lot of time on the bench trying cases...
...full that they jammed. At one point, Royal Air Maroc canceled flights. Angry passengers charged its offices at Orly and had to be restrained by riot police, who later took up positions to protect other airline ticket counters. Finally, bars were banned from serving liquor. Complained Frank North of Portland, Ore.: "The people at the counters won't even tell me what time the planes might leave. If I knew that, I could at least go into Paris and spend the day." At week's end, the air controllers suspended their slowdown while negotiations with the government continued...
...bought a new car-not a Rolls-Royce but a Ford LTD-and headed west. He stopped in Las Vegas and lost some money gambling, but just a modest amount. He drifted on to Oregon, and when he was picked up in Portland, he still had $88,000 left. Said one cop: "A guy who has lived modestly all his life doesn't suddenly become Mr. Big Spender...
Minority leaders and federal affirmative-action officials saw this development as further support by the court for their efforts. In Portland, Ore., addressing an anxious convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hailed the court's refusal to hear the AT&T case and strongly defended her agency's commitment to numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women. Said Norton: "We will not stop using them unless the court tells us directly to stop...
...elevator starter. Charles Ogasapain, owner of the Arlington Candy Co. in Woburn, Mass., cannot afford additional help, because rising costs of labor and materials are chewing up his profits. So he works twelve hours a day himself. Cynthia Bako could not earn enough as a waitress in Portland, Ore., to put herself through college, so she joined the Army to get free courses in electronics. Says she: "The Army is the young person's only hedge against being steamrollered by the cost of living...