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Word: crimeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar repressive countries. But one could also have called attention to those revolutionaries rotting in Cuban prisons. I think, for example, of Major Huber Matos, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro in the guerilla movement, who has been 18 years--yes, 18 years--in jail, for the sole crime of expressing disagreement with the Maximum Lider, and who spent a considerable period of time in solitary confinement for refusing to wear the obnoxious yellow jackets that Castro has decreed such prisoners should wear--a story which was documented last year by "Worldview," a liberal Christian magazine. And one could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Morality | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Gilman sold his health spas, stopped his gambling and won high marks from some constituents for improving the department's efficiency. He increased arrests and cut the county's crime rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diamond Don v. County Mounty | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...mother said: "It was as if she had been found guilty of some ghastly sexual crime or murder or robbery." What is more, Jane said she never wanted to see Prince Charles again. It was months before she relented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting the Right People | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...well be that after the sprints next weekend Harvard's foes will band together to have the Crimson locked away. Their crime: another year of capital crimes committed weekly on the water...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Heavyweights Streak Past Penn by Nine Seconds | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...almost all rights, many of these rights are denied to whites as well. The government can use fear of the "natives" to gain a mandate for repressive actions. For example, a friend's father--a white, South African lawyer--was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years. His crime: circulating a petition among white voters which asked for the liberalization of apartheid, and planning a peaceful rally consisting of liberal whites. Television was not allowed until 1975 because of its "unwholesome influence." It is now permitted to operate two hours per evening, once it has been fully edited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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