Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deeply disappointed and disturbed at Mr. Nixon's attempt to equate the abuses associated with Watergate with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The actions of the 1960s were public breaking of laws by marchers and demonstrators willing to go to jail for their actions. The purpose was not to subvert the law but to openly demonstrate its injustice. The burglary, perjury, obstruction of justice and illegal wiretapping connected with Watergate were done in secret with the purpose of subverting the democratic process. When the President of the U.S. is so ethically blind as to be unable...
...Panagoulis plans to write a book about his five years in jail, to be called either Filthy Dogs or The Silly Colonel. Even at his release, he continued to be explosive in his expressions of hatred for the present regime. Other prisoners were less outspoken but almost as intransigent...
...have dated from 1948. Begon surfaced in Rome last week, told skeptical police that he had indeed been kidnaped by the Mafia, spirited to the U.S. and released only after he had promised to steer clear of future Mafia stories. After a brief hospitalization, Begon was hustled off to jail, formally charged with embezzlement and fabricating a crime...
...efforts. Today, Chavez's union has only twelve contracts; its membership has shrunk from 40,000 to 6,500. By court order, police kept pickets 100 ft. apart, and when the pickets disobeyed, 3,000 of them, including 76 Roman Catholic priests and nuns, were swept off to jail. Now the union has run out of money, including a $1.6 million strike fund provided...
...radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not make it impossible for them to bail out of jail, wash off the tear gas, and join a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation: liberal students headed for law school could not avoid a career-crippling arrest by steering clear of militant demonstrations and still contribute meaningfully to ending the was by joining the peaceful waves of people who clogged the streets in quiet and orderly marches...