Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SALVADOR, El Salvador--A military court said yesterday the massacre of 13 people at two outdoor cafes in 1985 was a political act and ordered three suspects freed under an amnesty. Six of the victims were Americans...
Valdivieso said the three suspects could be freed on Friday...
...glasnost by meeting with Physicist Andrei Sakharov. It was the first time a Soviet leader had ever encountered so prominent a dissident face to face. The exchange took place at the Kremlin, where Gorbachev was receiving members of an international peace and human rights group. Sakharov, whom Gorbachev had freed from internal exile in 1986, handed the Soviet leader a list of 200 political prisoners whose release he sought. Apparently impressed with Gorbachev's openness, Sakharov later declared, "This kind of leader is needed in a great country at such a decisive moment in history." Coming from...
...psychiatric confinement as punishment could be put to an early test. Members of a Moscow-based group called Press Club Glasnost, composed mostly of former political prisoners, last week pointed to the case of Lev Ubozhko, 54, a Moscow dissident who spent 15 years in psychiatric hospitals before being freed last spring. They said Ubozhko had been rearrested and was being held in a psychiatric hospital at Chelyabinsk in the Urals, where he was taken after the director of a Moscow hospital refused to admit him on the ground that he appeared to be healthy...
...hostages were released remains a mystery, though France clearly had advance word, and may have negotiated with the terrorists through Syria. Two days before the men were freed, a French official quietly arrived in Beirut, where he was joined by the French Ambassador to Syria. The next day the kidnapers announced that two French hostages would be released within 24 hours, thanks to "positive indications" from the French government. Paris denied that any deal had been made...