Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second largest city. Armed men ran to the vehicle, took the six male tourists as hostages and gave the tour guide a ransom note addressed to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. The message said that the kidnapers would "blast these kids" by week's end unless Mugabe released from jail two former leaders in the guerrilla army of his rival, Joshua Nkomo. The note was signed Zipra Forces," the name of Nkomo's guerrilla army that was disbanded after the nation's seven-year civil war ended...
Advocates of the amendment, led by House sponsor Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.), argue that Congress should not support criminals. Viewed simplistically, the logic holds; non-registration is, after all, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of five years in jail combined with a $10,000 fine. But as with the legal prosecution program whose bill would total hundreds of millions of dollars if it were actually executed, the Solomon scheme raises a significant question: is registration enforcement worth the price...
John Hinckley Jr. tried to deny us our electoral choice, and for that he should spend the rest of his days in jail...
...pusher threatened to kill Watson and his family. Instead, Chandler pressured the man to cooperate. "He flipped," says Chandler. "He was looking out for his ass." As it turned out, the "flipper" made drug buys that accounted for ten of the 13 indictments. In return he may escape jail...
Mortal danger remains a remote but real possibility. Wilkinson collars a drunk driver of awesome size and manages to coax him to jail. Later that night, the prisoner wakes up in his cell and rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...