Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico, the kidnapers' leader turned out to be Raymond Napoleon, 24, a primary-school teacher, whose relatives are being held in jail. "I belong to no party," he declared, "but I am part of a group of students and teachers who are fighting the Duvalier government." The twelve prisoners he had freed included several student leaders and a union leader, Ulrick Jolly, who had spent most of the past ten years in jail. The 13th prisoner, Ambassador Knox, who plans to resign soon anyway, flew to Washington declaring, understandably, "I need a rest...
...Answer. Sulzberger raised another point that had not been part of the council dispute: that investigators might require newsmen accused of inaccuracy to divulge confidential sources. "We feel it is wrong to suggest that reporters and editors who are willing to risk jail to protect their sources would -or should-be ready to disclose them to the council." M.J. Rossant, director of the Twentieth Century Fund (and a member of the Times's editorial board from 1962 to 1967), denied that disclosure would be necessary. Said Rossant: "Some publishers in Britain were opposed to a press council...
...revolutionary government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been distressed by charges cited in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. that Occidental had won its concessions partly by f unneling money to officials of deposed King Idris, one a former minister who is now in jail. In 1971 Occidental lost $88 million on a mistimed tanker charter venture: it chartered a fleet of tankers when rates were rising sharply, then found that it did not need so many and was stuck with high-priced ships as rates collapsed. The company has since renegotiated many of the charter contracts. Angry shipowners charge...
...police. By the hundreds came police arrayed in combat gear and ready for violent action. At dawn, they marched in and cleared the building with night sticks and buttering ranis. Quite a few students were injured, a few seriously; a significant number of reporters were arrested and tossed in jail. In seconds, the mood of the University changed from anti-occupier to anti-Administration...
...bitterness against Older," Farr insists. Nonetheless, his life was disrupted, and may be again soon. Now 38 and divorced, Farr had been considering remarriage to his longtime girl friend, but that prospect has been relegated to limbo because of the uncertainty about his future. Despite the amenities of the jail, there was an obvious chafing. "The judge says, 'He's not even in jail, he's in the hospital,' " says Farr. "You could put this cell in the Waldorf-Astoria and it would still be jail...