Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentence seemed to satisfy even the most vengeful spectators. Four years in a tiny cell shared with two or three other prisoners. A $7 million fine. A $1.6 million bill for unpaid federal and state taxes. And once the jail term is up, 750 hours of community service caring for infants born with drug addictions or AIDS...
Emigres said Bucharest radio warned citizens on Sunday to remain orderly or face serious consequences, which in Romania can include long jail sentences or forced labor...
...official. "But now that he's taken a decision to fight these guys, he's unshakable." But if Barco's campaign is lauded by the politicians in Washington, it has more than its share of deserters among the politicians in Colombia. Aware that the specter of an American jail cell remains the drug bosses' darkest nightmare, the Colombian Supreme Court last October upheld Barco's use of executive powers to extradite suspects wanted in the U.S. But last week the Colombian House of Representatives voted to put the question of extradition on a nationwide referendum early next year...
...office of the dreaded Stasi (secret police) with two suitcases in tow. When the man was handed over to the police, they discovered currency worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that was believed to be intended for party officials. Two days later the man was found hanged in his jail cell. The 25,000-man Stasi, meanwhile, was partly defanged by the dismissal of its directorate and the reassignment of some 7,000 agents to customs detail...
...months ago the most powerful man in East Germany: last week the former party chief and eight of his erstwhile top lieutenants were formally charged by the state prosecutor's office with "enriching themselves through abuse of office." Seven of the ex-Politburo members were packed off to jail pending trial. Illness spared the other two, including Honecker, from suffering the same fate -- at least for the time being...