Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval conditions in Mexican jails. Relatives of the 577 Americans in Mexican prisons organized "Boycott Mexico" campaigns...
Meanwhile, the inquest into the unexplained death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko ended in Pretoria. At first the government maintained that Biko died in prison three months ago from the effects of a hunger strike. Later, security police claimed he had hit his head against a wall while scuffling angrily with interrogators. Summarizing his case last week, the eloquent attorney for Biko's family, Sydney Kentridge, asserted that the security police had inexcusably disregarded Stephen Biko's rights while he was in their custody. "There is indisputable evidence," Kentridge said, "that on the morning of Sept...
...least 21 have done so during the past 18 months. Official inquests usually attribute their deaths to suicide or implausible accidents such as slipping in a prison shower. Biko's death looked particularly suspicious: the government at first blamed it on the effects of a six-day hunger strike, but the 200-lb., 6 ft. 2 in. Biko had seemed too healthy to have succumbed to malnutrition so quickly. After an autopsy showed that Biko had suffered serious head injuries, the scheduled proceedings into his case attracted wide attention...
...head bump? Why did the doctors fail to diagnose the brain injury, even though they all noticed that Biko was incoherent? Why was a dying man subjected to a 14½-hour road trip to Pretoria? And what ever happened to the story that he had been on a hunger strike...
...size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...