Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they would be "punished severely." The threat was hardly novel: Pham Van Nhon, the publisher of Le Vietnam Nouveau, is serving a five-year sentence for associating with Communists. Truong Dinh Dzu, who recommended negotiations with the Communists when he ran for the presidency in 1967, has been in jail for a year. Considering that the Saigon regime has been at war for years, abridgment of some democratic freedoms is entirely natural, up to a point. Still, the situation makes it difficult to create a liberal opposition to Thieu's government, says Tran Van Tuyen...
...write a decision that required seven hours to read (with time out for two tea breaks), the judge delivered his verdict: guilty of failing to take "reasonable steps" to verify the stories. Pogrund's sentence was suspended; Gandar paid a $280 fine rather than spend three months in jail...
...almost constant trouble with the law, in the U.S. as elsewhere. They refuse military service, not on the ground of conscientious objection but on the dubious claim that every baptized member of the sect is a minister; as a result, a survey showed, 300 young American Witnesses were in jail last year for draft evasion. Currently, they are having difficulties with several African nations. In Zambia, for example, 3,700 Witness children were expelled from public schools for refusing to salute the flag, which they refuse to do anywhere because it expresses the kind of allegiance that is owed...
What plot there is concerns a young Cockney soldier by the name of Leslie (Michael Sacks), who is being held hostage by the I.R.A. of modern day Ireland in reprisal for one of their own boys scheduled to be hung in the Belfast Jail. Fortunately for the audience, the soldier is hidden in the midst of a Dublin brothel, which is supposedly so hot the officials would never even suspect it of revolutionary activity. Full of whores, queers, and their fellow eccentrics, the place is a kind of Cambridge city councillor's nightmare of what happens...
...role Michael Sacks is again perfectly cast--in his khaki he seems out of a World War II movie, an English Van Heflin both in costume and good spirits), the British soldier stops in the second act while realizing he shares the plight of the boy in the Belfast Jail, and when his girlfriend (Ann Sachs who is just lovely as a convent-bred girl with a heart of gold) closes the play with an angry indictment, The Hostage approaches a truth as trite as it is universal, one not to be easily dismissed...