Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids are easy to train. They have a better sense that the world is a pretty dangerous place and that somebody's got to defend all those things that we believe in." The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over. "We won't take a man if he has a parking ticket outstanding," said Nashville Navy Recruiter Tony Thomas. Indeed, the services frown on would-be recruits who have not finished high school. In 1980, 68% of the enlistees had diplomas; today that figure...
Moscow-Tehran relations have, in fact, long been characterized by mutual and mistrustful exploitation. The Soviets were far from enthusiastic in their support for Khomeini in the months just before his 1979 overthrow of the Shah. The reason, as a Tudeh member now in jail puts it, was that "Moscow perceived the clergy as incorrigible reactionaries." Those fears were well founded. Right-wing clergymen routinely reviled the Soviets as godless Communists, while Khomeini opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But Moscow wooed Tehran by offering assistance against the nettlesome Mujahedin guerrillas. In response, the mullahs invited KGB agents to Iran...
...peculiarly bloodless demolition of a largely toothless group. On TV broadcasts videotaped in jail, glum leaders of Iran's Tudeh Communist Party confessed, one by one, to being Soviet spies. Haggard and morose, First Secretary Nureddin Kianuri conceded that since its inception in 1941, the party had been "an instrument of espionage and treason," and added that he had been spying for Moscow since 1945. After seven colleagues elaborated on the details of their treachery, Ali Amou'i, a ranking Central Committee member, warned Iranian youths not to follow his example and calmly declared the dissolution...
...Construct a new jail so that criminals can be more swiftly processed...
...whose character was as strange and shadowed as his films. He took a sexual kind of satisfaction in food and managed to pack as much as 365 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame. He had a deep terror, which he transmuted superbly into film, of policemen and jails. Making a good story of it, he said that this fear originated when, at the age of six, "I did something that my father considered worthy of reprimand. He sent me to the local police station with a note. The officer on duty read it and locked...