Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convicted under an organized-crime statute, Steinberg languishes in a South Florida jail, facing possible life imprisonment. To mollify prosecutors, he handed over $2 million, his last remaining assets from a business that once reaped a $12 million profit in 90 days. His marriage broken, his friends in jail, his career ended, Steinberg still sees himself as much the same gentle youth who served as a medic in Viet Nam for eight months in 1968. Says he: "Marijuana doesn't hurt anybody. We never saw ourselves as really doing anything wrong...
...surrender it. Making the break is the key, for in the time before, surrender is a daily event, a subconscious and draining part of living. And then dignity is won in a moment, in that brief flash when you demand what is right and you are not thrown in jail, shot in the back, consigned to an asylum. For the Polish workers, their first demands were quite simple--the rehiring of one shipyard employee, and wage increases. But then solidarity--and from it Solidarity--worked its invigorating power, and soon there was an air of quiet confidence and a long...
...South Vietnamese began fleeing the oppressive Hanoi regime in rickety fishing craft. By 1980, Thailand was overwhelmed by nearly 300,000 refugees from Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Government policy in Bangkok shifted, and Thai fishermen, who once came to the aid of the refugees, were given three-day jail sentences if they towed a leaking refugee boat to shore...
...Jews wish only to go away, and to receive some knowledge about their culture while they're still there," Stern said. Pressure from the West in the from of letters to Soviet and American officials, demonstrations, and any other form of publicity can help reduce jail sentences and raise emigration, he added...
Sandinistas jail businessmen...