Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis began with two random killings and a kidnaping. Early in the week, during a left-wing demonstration in support of amnesty for political prisoners (170 still remain in jail, although at least 400 others have been released since Franco's death), a student on the edge of the crowd was suddenly shot dead by an unidentified civilian. Most observers blamed the shooting on an extremist right-wing group calling itself the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (Guerrillas of Christ the King). Next day, at a hastily called rally to protest the student's murder, a young woman...
...Italy's jails, too, are vastly overcrowded, and the police report that the prisoners are doing an excellent job of alleviating the problem. There was a jail break roughly every 24 hours in 1976, and the rate is climbing. As the new year began, 13 prisoners overpowered their guards at Treviso penitentiary and dispersed in nearby Venice, presumably in search of getaway gondolas...
Birth Control. The government also set out to abolish the illegal "parallel economy" that had flourished alongside the official one. About 1,300 smugglers were thrown in jail. Mrs. Gandhi, on the other hand, declared an amnesty from criminal charges for people who had failed to pay sufficient taxes-often on wealth accumulated from undeclared remittances sent home by Indians living abroad-provided they declared their holdings and paid taxes and a penalty on them. Large sums that would otherwise have been spent on such luxury items as cars and air conditioners flowed into the treasury, adding to foreign exchange...
Irons served a 26-month jail sentence beginning in 1963 for the felony...
...gifted tactician, Mrs. Gandhi not only stunned the electorate but once again confounded her opponents. Morarji Desai, 80, the wily leader of the Old Congress Party and an implacable political foe of Mrs. Gandhi's, suddenly found himself released from jail only a few hours before Mrs. Gandhi's broadcast. The relatively short campaign period, he complained, "puts a hardship on the opposition. But I am sure that the sudden declaration of an election will benefit not the Prime Minister but the nation." Declared Piloo Mody, secretary of the Indian People's Party: "I am happy about...