Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a President, one of the ablest in your history, who has talent, guts and a superb conception of international relations, but you will kill him. The whole Watergate business is a bagatelle. Instead of impeaching Nixon, change your Constitution, elect him for seven more years, and send to jail for anti-American activities everybody who is against...
...registration projects, mostly under the aegis of the Congress on Racial Equality or the NAACP. A number of Harvard students were arrested that summer, and at least one--John N. Perdew '64, shot at and arrested during an SNCC demonstration in Americus, Ga.--spent more than three months in jail, while his friends in Kirkland House raised $2000 for his defense only to have the Supreme Court strike down the anti-insurrection law under which he was arrested. Other civil-rights workers had only slightly less eventful summers, and most came back to Harvard to tell about them. "Although...
...Kent; Mathew J. McManus, 28, of West Salem, Ohio; and Leon H. Smith, 27, of Bay City, Ohio-were charged with misdemeanors because there was no evidence that their bullets had struck the dead students. If found guilty, they each could get up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...prison last week-but just for dessert. The ex-boss of the Teamsters was announcing to several hundred inmates of the prison in Norfolk, Mass., the opening of the New England chapter of the National Association for Justice, which he founded in 1972 on his release from federal jail. Its aim: to help cons battle civil rights and legal problems. Tackling questions from the floor, Law-and-Order Convert Hoffa advocated the death penalty for "mad dog" killers and kidnapers. But he came out against giving immunity to "stool pigeons" because that, in his view, is unfair to the people...
...addition to touring prisons, are currently staging an off-Broadway hit, Short Eyes, at Joseph Papp's New York Public Theater. A year ago, most of them were inmates in New York prisons. Kenny Steward, 32, ex-drug addict, spent 16 years in and out of jail cells as he progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar; in two years at Auburn, he added bass and theory, and at Sing Sing, trumpet. Miguel...