Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greatest Love. One after another, Negro leaders began standing up to defend Powell, who faces a jail term for evading a defamation judgment. He is also being investigated by a House subcommittee looking into irregularities in the spending of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is chairman. Powell's defenders served notice that they would battle any move to challenge his seating in Congress or otherwise censure...
Unless this conflict can be eased, the U.S. will find some of her most loyal and courageous young people choosing to go to jail rather than to bear their country's arms...
...week's end, Dan's would-be killers were still at large, but a Viet Cong who had confessed taking part in Van's murder was in jail. There was much gossip in Saigon about other suspects. But in each case, the most likely remained the Viet Cong, who not only stand to profit from any animosity between assembly and government, but have been on record since before the assembly was elected as determined to kill its Deputies...
...Djakarta to be used as headquarters and staging area for the plot; in turn, he was promised that he would eventually become chief of state. But the plot was smashed by the Indonesian army, and Dani, along with Foreign Minister Subandrio and other top government officials, was put in jail on charges of treason. Subandrio was tried by a military court and sentenced to death in October. On the day before Christmas, Dani got his: after three weeks of testimony before another military court, he too was sentenced to death...
Centuries after the poet composed his lyric tribute to the jail-breaking qualities of young love, his words ring with a far more literal truth. "There is really no secure prison" in all of Britain, concluded a government committee headed by former First Lord of the Admiralty Earl Mountbatten. And Britain's prison ers seem determined to prove Mountbatten right. In the two weeks since the report was published, convicts have been crashing out at an embarrassing clip. At least 29 have taken what the British press ironically calls "Christmas leave...