Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Tito struck directly at the only organized force left in Yugoslavia with the power to criticize his dictatorship. Into jail he clapped grave, ascetic Dr. Aloysius Stepinac, 48, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia, and twelve Catholic priests. The charge: crimes against the people...
Last week Dewavrin, stripped of rank and honors, and some 70 pounds lighter after four months in jail on unspecified charges, was recuperating in a clinic near Paris (see cut). His case had not been brought before any court, nor was it likely to be. "L'Affaire Passy" had begun to smell like "L'Affaire Dreyfus...
Technically charged with possessing narcotics, but not under arrest, Ross will go to the U.S. Public Health Service hospital for drug addicts, in Lexington, Ky. The hospital was established a decade ago to end the old policy of throwing addicts in jail like criminals. Of the 792 narcotic patients now at Lexington, 650 are under prison sentence for narcotics-law violations, 42 are on probation, 100 are volunteers (like Ross...
...proud father returned to his homeland which by then had become Yugoslavia. His chief baggage was Communist fanaticism. He promptly put it to use as a union organizer among the metal workers of Zagreb and Kraljevica. In 1929, Tito was arrested by the Yugoslav Royal Police and remained in jail until 1934. At this point, the biographical barometer registers ceiling zero...
During the day, Mrs. Kyner tramps through Rangely's muddy streets selling ads, gathering local news. She calls herself "manager, editor, reporter, errand boy and devil." Often, while writing her stories and editorials, Mrs. Kyner is interrupted by the profane shouts of the town drunks. Rangely has no jail; the deputy sheriff handcuffs prisoners, nails the cuffs to a pole outside the Rangely News office...