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That news told an alarming story. At least seven people were killed in clashes with security forces, hundreds more were injured, as many as 50,000 were under arrest???and an entire nation of 36 million was being held virtually incommunicado by its own army. Every private telephone in the country was dead. Gas stations were closed to private cars. Flights were canceled. All travel, even within Poland, was banned. A 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew was in effect every night...
...sent dismissal notices by the Federal Aviation Administration. Federal judges ordered U.S. marshals to haul five local union leaders off to jail for defying court injunctions against the strike. Some leaders were marched away in handcuffs and shackled from waist to feet in chains?standard procedure for a federal arrest???adding a note of high drama to the crackdown...
...guilty verdict has been a foregone conclusion since March 1977, when the government newspaper Izvestiya?just before Shcharansky's arrest???accused him of spying for the CIA. According to Shcharansky's brother Leonid, who was admitted to the courtroom, the defendant's first action was to dismiss the lawyer who had been assigned to him by the KGB in place of the attorney he had requested and been denied. Conducting his own defense, Shcharansky made a one-hour opening statement to the presiding judge and two lay assessors who constituted a jury. During the five-day trial, his brother later...
...mysteriously in prison. An inquest is still pending, but there is widespread suspicion that prison beating contributed to his death. The Biko case produced further disorder, and on Oct. 19 the government responded by arresting or "banning"?a unique form of near-solitary confinement which can include house arrest???some 60 individuals, 18 organizations and two newspapers. Last week, during a house-to-house sweep through a township near Pretoria, police arrested 626 blacks on a variety of charges...
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