Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relative dug up would affect a number of other families in the neighborhood, all sprung from the loins of Cap'n Newt and Rachel. Last week a court in Ellisville convicted Cap'n Newt's great-grandson of miscegenation, sentenced him to five years in jail...
...village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that he had been skipped in Israel's recent census...
...your daily dose of catastrophes, crises and cynicism?" it asked, and went on for eight pages to tell such news as "50,000 Arabs Live Peacefully in Israel! . . . Better Drinking Water for Pennsylvania . . . Soviets Thank Quakers . . . FAO Hunger Fighters Take to the Offensive ... Wife Joins Husband in Jail...
...ministers pledged themselves to continue the policies of their predecessors-only more "moderately." Union leaders (almost all now released from jail) and other Acción members declared that they would form an open opposition to the Junta as soon as constitutional guarantees were restored. Said a spokesman for Junta President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud: "Democratic elections will take place. But right now the new government is busy trying ... to put everything on an efficient administrative basis, and above all to establish an atmosphere of tolerance before the elections." As the first step toward those elections, the Junta dissolved the national...
...young mutual friend to get better acquainted with Monroe. "I don't put servants in people's houses," explains Pearson, "or plant people around town. But in this case I was fighting for a million bucks." The young man dug up enough dirt to put Monroe in jail-and the libel suit was dismissed...