Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida, blasted the indictment as a "political lynching." Some of his advisers suggest that his motive for staying in office is to offer to resign as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a lighter sentence. If convicted, he could be fined $1.25 million and sentenced to 20 years in prison...
...implicate Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street speculator, who was fined $100 million for insider trading. He in turn agreed to help prosecutors pursue Milken, who had become the ultimate Mr. Big. (Boesky, bearded and gaunt, now resides in a Brooklyn halfway house, where he is completing a three-year prison sentence...
...past three weeks Hazelwood has been on trial for his role in the grounding of the tanker last March. If convicted of criminal mischief and recklessly creating a risk of property damage, he faces seven years in prison and $61,000 in fines...
...When Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison Farm last week, TIME's Peter Magubane was on hand to photograph the moment. The two men would not have the opportunity to embrace until two days later, however, when Magubane would be called to a secret location on Mandela's first day back in Johannesburg. "I wasn't taking pictures," Magubane says. "I said, 'You look quite good. You haven't changed.' It was a relief to see him out of prison." Two nights later, the two men, who have known each other nearly 40 years, shared...
...most striking symbols of four-power rule was the guarding of Nazi war criminals at the Spandau prison in West Berlin, where the four countries rotated guard duties every month. After Rudolf Hess, the last prisoner, died in 1987, the prison was demolished. Now the World War II victors will again have a role to play in determining Germany's destiny...