Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board was freed of direct legislative intervention and control of the body was transferred to some Harvard alumni...
...that violence took place against a backdrop of confusion over who exactly was in control in the islands. Early in the week army officers freed deposed Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra and the 27 members of his government. The release was part of a careful plan negotiated between Rabuka and Fiji's Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, who is an independent Commonwealth official representing Queen Elizabeth II. Ganilau had stood firm against the coup, declaring a state of emergency and ordering the troops to return to their barracks. When they refused, he began negotiations with Rabuka, who had appointed himself...
...time, Botha pledged to be "more directly involved" in negotiations with black leaders and to create a National Council as a forum for such talks. But even moderate blacks such as KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi have refused to take part until Nelson Mandela and other popular leaders are freed from prison and offered the opportunity to participate. The reform process, slow and tentative at best, appears stalemated...
...captured officer would be held hostage, the students announced, until five of their comrades arrested the day before were released. The police responded brutally and effectively. They stormed buildings across the campus, firing tear-gas canisters into occupied classrooms and the university library, until the hostage, seriously injured, was freed...
...average stay at St. Elizabeths for criminally insane patients is five years. Doctors argue that Hinckley is no more of a risk than the hundreds of others released every day. Were it not for the fame of his victim, they insist, he would probably have already been freed. But Hinckley's case, which comes up for review every six months, will inevitably remain problematic. "There is no precedent for dealing with assassins," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified at the 1982 Hinckley trial. "None have ever been released from custody alive...