Word: cell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judged trustworthy because of his family connections, he was admitted to an underground group, sent to Cuba to learn guerrilla tactics, then ordered to organize a six-member cell. Among other jobs, he was involved in the murder of an informer and an attempt to spring a fellow terrorist out of an Old San Juan jail...
THERE'S A HUNGER STRIKE on in Walpole's Cell Block Four. Prison administrators say that although the inmates are boycotting the cafeteria, they are buying food at the prison store, but on one knows for sure. The men in Four Block have been locked up, isolated even from other prisoners in Walpole's maximum security end, ever since a fatal prison stabbing on September...
...correctional system, as the state refers to it, is a bit of a misnomer for the prison system. Since 1975, it has been based on a "step" system, where prisoners progress from heavy to lighter security jails as they return. But, as in the current situation on Cell Block Four, there is a basic contradiction involved: behavior the prison administrators consider "progressive"--informing on other prisoners, cooperating with the guards--is the very behavior the prisoners' code condemns...
...affiliated hospitals, Tosteson the scientist is trying to keep a hand in scientific research. He is an authority on biological membranes, and although he now has little time to spend in the lab he directs a research team that includes his wife, Magdalena T. Tosteson. Studying red blood cell membranes, the group is exploring possible links between manic depressive disorders and anomalies in individuals' red cell membranes...
Lithium treatment, Tosteson says, is most often used to aid manic depressives. He says that in many manic depressives the red cell membrane has no system for regulating the transport of lithium. Tosteson hopes to examine the chromosomes of manic depressive individuals to see if there is a correlation between the presence of genes for the mental disorder and the presence of genes for the red cell membrane disorder...