Word: incommunicado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black men were arrested on Aug. 18 at a police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa. Under the country's tough Terrorism Act, one of them was detained for questioning-incommunicado-in Port Elizabeth. On Sept. 5, according to police statements, the prisoner went on a hunger strike, and six days later he was transferred to Pretoria Central Prison. One night last week a warder looked through a peephole in the prisoner's cell and saw him "lying very still." A doctor was called to certify the death...
...recent years, dissidents have reached the West with tales of political victims held incommunicado in psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugged into a docile stupor, beaten or tied to their beds to wallow in their own excrement. These practices have outraged world opinion, but the World Psychiatric Association timidly avoided the subject at its last meeting...
...deaths pushed the tally of fatalities resulting from political violence to nearly 450 in the three months since the junta took over. Of those, more than 70 have been policemen. An unknown number of other people have either been kidnaped by terrorists or arrested by security forces and held incommunicado...
...Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...
...basketball program has enough going against it already without having to withstand the burden of a coach who is incommunicado with his players. Any team which has to call the IAB its home and play a schedule which calls for back-to-back contests in Cambridge over both vacation and intersession weekends is at a big enough disadvantage as it is. Then you throw in the history of Harvard basketball (its first Ivy title is still forthcoming) and the (lack of) fan support which the team receives, and you realize that if the athletic program has an achilles heel...