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...command would have slammed us. If they saw what was going on, there would be hell to pay." Sivits--who faces a special court-martial this week on charges revolving around photographing the maltreatment--is expected to plead guilty in exchange for a maximum sentence of a year in jail--and to repeat his testimony against the other accused...
...DIED. WILLIAM STUART BROWN, 52, former Australian diplomat and English teacher sentenced to 13 years in prison for obscene acts with minors; by hanging himself in a jail cell; in Karangasem, Bali. Brown, who was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, received an unusually long sentence amid a campaign by Bali to shed its image as a pedophile's paradise...
...drinking habits were a matter of national concern. The Times denied they either apologized or retracted the comment. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... Looking for Harder Time Two prisoners who escaped from an open prison in central England turned up a day later at the doors of a more secure jail 32 km away, asking to serve the rest of their sentences there. The pair wanted to return to the more conventional cells where they had earlier managed to kick their drug habits. Baffled guards let the inmates stay - at least until a hearing set for this week...
Ahmed Zaoui knows just how hard the country can be. In December 2002, the fugitive Algerian politician stepped off a plane from Malaysia, asked for asylum - and was hustled, under heavy police guard, into a maximum-security jail. Zaoui, a member of his country's banned Islamic Salvation Front party, had been convicted by Algerian, Belgian and French courts of assisting or associating with terrorists. Declaring those rulings "unsafe," New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority granted Zaoui asylum last August. But the government insisted that his "continued presence in New Zealand constitutes a threat to national security...
Herbie Haupt was the first of six Nazi agents to be electrocuted in the District of Columbia jail on Aug. 8, 1942. He was also an American citizen. Two months earlier, on June 17, Haupt had landed ashore with three compatriots at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Their group, along with a second group of four Nazi spies that landed in eastern Long Island on June 13, came from Germany by submarine. They had instructions to destroy American factories, power plants, railroads and other military-industrial sites—an assignment known as Operation Pastorius...