Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa. By week's end 15 protesters had been arrested for entering and then refusing to leave the South African embassy or for crossing police lines. Congressmen Ronald Dellums of California and John Conyers of Michigan were among those who spent a night in a district jail...
During the protest, police arrested about 160 people, including two Roman Catholic priests and a deacon. The clerics spent a night in jail before being released in response to pleas from Santiago Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín. A British subject who worked as the United Press International correspondent in Santiago, Anthony Boadle, was summarily deported for filing a report that three deaths had occurred during rioting (in fact, none had). Pinochet, who has refused widespread demands that he relinquish power to a democratically elected government, spent the protest days away from the capital, touring the desert country...
...year-old retired professor said that he was planning to circulate a letter to be signed by a large group of fellow Nobel laureates asking the South African government to free Black civil rights leader Nelson Mandella, who has been in jail in South Africa for 22 years...
...hesitated at first to enter church premises forcibly, finally ordered Roth arrested near his altar last week. For disobeying the court order, Roth was given 90 days in prison and a $1,200 fine. While Bishop May decides whether to defrock the clergyman, Roth vows to remain in jail until he is reinstated at the church and executives agree to negotiate with DMS. Considering the hard feelings that now exist, his sentence is likely to run out before there is any compromise...
...grammar school trip to a steel mill because the workers were on strike. "Everyone came home with a little box of nails," Gilly (Ron Silver) recalls as he scolds his middle-aged mom for her political activities. He's just bailed her out of jail for another one of her anti-establishment antics. But not a moment too soon, because when Estelle hears construction workers yell obscenities at a woman in the street, she rides up to the building to off the hankering hardhats. Estelle seems unstoppable; until she finds she's dying of cancer. "I know everyone...