Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where Morris L. West's bestseller merely strained credulity, the movie shatters it beyond repair. In Siberia, a political prisoner has been pardoned by Russia's Premier (Laurence Olivier) after 20 years in a slave-labor camp. The freed man is no ordinary convict: he is Kiril Lakota, a tough, Mindszenty-like Slavic archbishop. Lakota has been sprung because Russia and China stand ready to trigger an atomic holocaust. The premier, who just happens to be La-kota's former inquisitor, is desperately gambling that the prelate can somehow persuade the world that the Soviet Union wants...
Recently, a new development has underlined the need to abolish the death penalty. This is the tendency for capital cases to drag on for years and even decades, until a new class of convict has been created--the permanent resident of Death Row. The surreal horror of this kind of situation should be enough to convince anyone that the death penalty is creating far more suffering than it is preventing...
...story, such as it is, concerns a black convict named Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) who escapes from prison, where he has spent five years on a trumped-up charge of rape and murder. Lake lights out to bring the real culprit to justice, only to be sidetracked by a jealous psychopath (Kevin McCarthy) who wants him to bump off his wealthy wife (Dana Wynter...
...convict lecturers are from the maximum-security section of the penitentiary, and a few are bank rob bers and murderers. Yet nobody has tried to escape so far. The men realize that one escape would doom the whole program, and they themselves choose the five four-man teams who go - with the approval of prison authorities. So far, the teams have traveled a total of more than 200,000 miles across the state and have spoken to some 750,000 Coloradans. Their message usually goes like this: "I'm on the road to nowhere...
...Convincer. In the group's hierarchy, Newton is flanked by his minister of information, Eldridge Cleaver, the ex-convict author of Soul on Ice (TIME, April 5), who is the presidential candidate of the multiracial Peace and Freedom Party. The code of the Panthers is a ten-point manifesto, written by Newton in 1966, that calls for complete black control of the businesses, police and courts in Negro areas. Newton also demands freedom for all Negroes in prison and draft exemption for Negroes. Last week Herman B. Ferguson, who is under indictment for a conspiracy to assassinate moderate Negro...