Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including the possibility of holding elections before the constitutionally scheduled date, and U.S. willingness to allow the neutralization of South Viet Nam. Neutralization, which many Saigon politicians fear will lead to takeover by the North, remains officially anathema in South Viet Nam; at least one politician is still in jail for having advocated it as a solution of the war. However, Thieu evidently felt that Nixon's proviso-"if that is what the South Vietnamese people freely choose"-was both fair and safe. At week's end, while receiving Rogers, he requested a meeting with Nixon, perhaps...
...Jail Interview. Almost no one, least of all those in the Nixon Administration, wanted to see the impeachment carried out. It would have poisoned the atmosphere in Washington and reflected unfavorably on the entire Government. More practically, it would also have monopolized the time of both houses of Congress for weeks and even months. Nixon cautioned Republicans in Congress against hasty action, and G.O.P. Congressional Leaders Gerald Ford and Everett Dirksen passed the word...
...just been got out of jail las' month...
...always been mean, too. They got him, now. Back to jail...
...apparent reason other than his own outrage at the act and, apparently, at the seizure of University Hall itself. Had Offner shoved a fellow student in the way that he is alleged to have shoved Watson, Viola would never have entertained any notion of sending him to jail for a year: it is therefore clear that Viola's sentence was politically rather than judicially motivated...