Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when a white man yells, "You symbolize hatred! How can you call yourselves Christians?" Suddenly the crowd rolls forward as several Klansmen rush the heckler. The police grab him quickly. A local newspaperman is arrested too, for taking pictures of the arrest, and both prisoners are whisked off to jail...
...started out at the White House, where he warmly welcomed India's frail-looking but still vigorous Prime Minister, the 82-year-old Morarji Desai. Carter praised his Indian guest for having willingly gone to jail rather than succumb to the restrictions on freedom during the period of Emergency Rule under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Desai responded that both India and the U.S. were bound by "an unshakable commitment to the dignity of the individual" -an endorsement of Carter's position on human rights...
Last week, however, Tony Pro was convicted of murder by a jury in Kingston, N.Y., and sent to languish among the other losers in an upstate jail. Found guilty of murder with him was Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg, 56, a New Jersey loan shark and extortionist...
Four of the five were subsequently identified as members of the Second of June Movement, a Berlin offshoot of the Red Army Faction. Their caper was especially embarrassing in light of the fact that three of the women had escaped from another West Berlin jail in 1976. To offset criticism of the shoddy security at Moabit, Bonn then announced the arrests of the terrorists in Yugoslavia on May 11; the news had been kept secret because extradition negotiations were not finished...
...sanctuary of press freedom; the impact of such decisions is sometimes milder than expected. The Supreme Court ruled in 1972, for instance, that journalists who observe a crime have no absolute right to protect confidential sources, but judges have generally been reluctant to send uncooperative reporters to jail. In fact, after last week's decision, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said that the Justice Department would draw up procedures limiting federal searches of newsrooms and would seek subpoenas before search warrants. He could not guarantee, however, that local judges and police would show similar restraint...