Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sided war, to oppose one side actively means helping the other. The generals had found themselves hampered by anti-communist liberals who insisted on preserving civil liberties and democratic forms in their efforts to stamp out revolution. General Thieu had himself triumphantly re-elected while his opponents languished in jail cells. Similarly, the American government found itself embarrassed by the anti-communist liberals who opposed escalating terror, wanted to know why General Thieu wasn't preserving civil liberties and democratic forms, and who denounced "forced-draft urbanization," a policy that consisted of bombing villages till their inhabitants moved to cities...
...political democracy in order to keep Vietnam free, the American government began to undermine American democracy for the good of the republic. Demonstrators were no longer exercising their Constitutional rights; they were "bums;" it was all right to club them in Chicago, or shoot in Ohio, or herd into jail in Washington. Newspapers were no longer the safeguard of democracy, the cornerstone of a republican state. Or rather, they were now more than ever the safeguard of democracy--which was no longer acceptable to democracy's defenders. Nixon so feared people's knowing the truth about what was happening...
...habeas corpus law in Switzerland. Erdman was held for ten months without being charged with any crime before he was able to raise a bail set at nearly 1,000,000 Swiss francs. The Swiss have also attached his property and bank accounts. After he was sent to jail, he had to fall back on some formidable intellectual assets. In addition to having a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel, he has studied philosophy with Karl Jaspers and is a scholar of ancient Greek...
Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His own accommodations were not unpleasant. He had television, radio, all the books he wanted - and a typewriter...
After getting out of jail, he took Helly and their two daughters to England and began planning two more novels...