Word: jail
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...leaders who believed in the highest ideals. Yet, he added a democratic notion to his theory of leadership. At the time of the Montgomery crisis he thought his authority derived from religious sources and from the people: "I would rather spend ten years in jail than desert the people in this crisis." The leader, he added, had special responsibilities and in times of crises he could make a difference. His primary responsibility was to articulate the relationship between means and ends...
Martin Luther King responded to the new mood of militancy he had observed at Birmingham and among Blacks as a whole. He took the occasion of a letter from a Birmingham jail, dated April 16, 1963, to warn the nation of what might happen if Black demands were not met. "I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. "King pointed out. "One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who also, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self-respect and a sense of 'somebodiness' that...
...Italian authorities by Mehmet Ali Agca, 24, the Turk who is now serving a life sentence in a Rome prison for his attempt on the Pope's life. According to accounts of his confession that were leaked to Rome newspapers, Agca says that he escaped from a Turkish jail in 1979 with the aid of a Turkish terrorist who allegedly worked for the Bulgarians. Agca went to Bulgaria and then to Rome, where he met three Bulgarians, including Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head of the local office of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines. Later, apparently, he was offered...
...series of landmark cases that began with Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court ruled that any criminal facing a possible jail sentence was entitled to have an attorney. At the same time, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Administration began to provide millions of dollars to set up local legal services programs to handle such civil court problems of the poor as evictions, consumer complaints and fights with bureaucracies. Over the next decade and a half, the increasing commitment of Government to provide lawyers for the poor led some to note with acerbic exaggeration that only the very rich...
...drifter. For the past few years he had worked as a maintenance man in Miami Beach hotels. A friend, John Bauer, described him as intelligent, articulate and dedicated. Said Bauer: "He got to the point where he felt he had to do something drastic." In 1976 Mayer was jailed in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in marijuana. Although Mayer was deported after serving only a few months, his stay in jail permanently transformed him; back in America he became a fervent antinuclear activist...