Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalist on the island. In 1973, under the despotic regime of Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, Hughes was beaten up while covering pre-independence rallies. Five years later, the Marxist government of Maurice Bishop began harassing him because of his editorial independence. Three weeks ago, Hughes was thrown into jail for having reported on the violent coup that brought down Bishop. Freed one day after the U.S. invasion, Hughes, who is also a part-time reporter for the London Sunday Tunes, ABC and TIME, offers his view of his country's future...
...Stick with your client when he gets to jail, he needs you," he said. He described his position as a former lawyer in prison as being like a "doctor in a leper colony...
When asked if he feels he "deserved going to jail," Ehrlichman said, "Once I was convicted of the crime, there was nothing else they could do with...
...occurred to me that "on the street" is a strange place for a middle-class person to want to stay, but because most defendants hang out there, it's become a term of the trade for "not in jail." When you think about being in jail, you realize how important being on the street is Whatever you want to do, and wherever you want to go, you have to start on the street...
...Connor also said the act would be unconstitutional, since separation of powers means that the federal, not local, government has the sole responsibility for the defense of the U.S. Provisions of the law could send company researchers to jail if they continue research that is legal in the U.S. but illegal in Cambridge, he added...