Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistan's Foreign Minister from 1963 to 1966 under Yahya's predecessor, Mohammed Ayub Khan, Bhutto was the chief architect of his country's friendly policy toward China. He resigned after a series of differences with Ayub, and in 1968-69 spent three months in jail on political charges...
...many Communists with 20 jail terms behind them have the President of the Republic turn out to do them honor. David Alfaro Siqueiros, however, was taking it all in stride. The occasion was the Mexico City opening of Polyforum, a culture center 2,735 yards long, for which the 75-year-old Siqueiros has created the architecture, engineering, painting and sculpture. "It is an atheistic temple," said he. "It is not to adore God but to adore man." Nevertheless, among the encomiums came a cable from the Vatican, wishing "that your artistic message in favor of peace, justice, hope, brotherhood...
After three months in a Mexico City jail, Richard E. Hyland '69-70 was released by Mexican authorities December 20. Hyland--who had been arrested and charged with conspiracy and "withholding information" about a Mexican revolutionary group--was deported to Texas on December...
Hyland was released after the Mexican Magistrates' Court--the equivalent of the Supreme Court for criminal cases--reduced his bail from 500,000 pesos ($40,000) to 150,000 pesos ($12,000). After paying ten per cent of the smaller bail in cash, he was taken to an immigration jail...
When the play opens, Said (Robert Jackson), the poorest of the poor, is about to marry Leila (Janet League), the ugliest of the ugly. He steals a coat and lands in jail. She steals in order to be with him, and after that they sink from degradation to degradation. The war quickly takes center stage, with the French soldiers presented as dandified homosexuals and the rebels as little better. The language of the play is unrelentingly anal. As no great surprise, Genet finally advocates acts of evil as the only liberating force either against the old order...