Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berrigan says he last directly communicated with Pedro Arupe, the Jesuit Superior-General, while in a Washington D.C. jail last spring awaiting prosecution for digging a grave on the White House lawn in protest of U.S. nuclear armament policy. "The only problem with the grave we dug was that we left it empty. If we had filled it with little children, we might have been decorated," Berrigan commented...
...there were police and soldiers with their sub-machine guns on almost every street corner. The curfew, which continues more than two years after the coup, usually begins at 1 a.m. and ends at 5:30 a.m.; anyone caught in the streets between those hours is taken directly to jail for the night...
January 12--One of our new friends, Pablo, seems to have connections with the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Chile's most extreme socialist group. He was a high-school teacher before the coup, was arrested, taken to the stadium, served over a year in jail and now tries to survive by selling balloons in the parks. He said the prisoners at the stadium were given nothing to eat or drink for eight days...
...think the Hunt family feels about All the President's Men while my father is rotting in jail? Howard Hunt's ordeal has been a painful one. He has suffered and lost everything. It's a pity that Mr. Redford did not have the foresight to see that this film will also be at the emotional expense of my father's family and other families as well...
...controls his anarchic daughter Marilyn, a Sarah Lawrence spitfire who consumes and casts off husbands. He can no longer reach his gently demented mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons him full of honey on cold nights...