Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revived the Philippine economy and brought the country safely through a period of "anarchy, public confusion, terror and despair. "But the price has been high. Three years ago, Marcos imposed martial law and made himself a virtual dictator. Today an estimated 6,000 political prisoners are still in jail, including former Liberal Party Secretary-General Benigno Aquino Jr., 43, who might have defeated Marcos if elections had been held in 1973 according to the constitution. Last week TIME Correspondent David Aikman interviewed Marcos and his wife Imelda, 46, at Manila 's Malacañang Palace and sent this report...
...Loeb borrowed $250,000 from his mother, the widow of Teddy Roosevelt's personal secretary, to buy into the Union Leader, but later became embroiled hi a court fight with her over use of the funds. Cash also recounts the story of the night that Loeb spent in jail on an alienation of affections charge (settled out of court, although Cash insists Loeb was guilty), and the day he pulled out a pistol and shot the office cat dead. Loeb later told employees, through a spokesman, that the cat was suffering a convulsion and he wanted...
...provincial cabinet minister for the Northwest Frontier province was murdered last February, Bhutto banned the National Awami Party-the principal party in the province-and arrested 300 of its leaders, including Khan Abdul Wali Khan, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. Most are still in jail. The battle grew more heated when security forces last month threw the opposition members out of the National Assembly, following a quarrel over passage of a constitutional amendment...
...invitations came in the form of a subpoena, and the party itself took place in an abandoned Los Angeles jail. Guests included Performers Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset, who were frisked, photographed and fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They...
...take a long time, but once Federal Court Judge W. (for Wendell) Arthur Garrity Jr. reaches a conclusion, he sticks to it. He deliberated for more than two years before deciding that conditions at Boston's dilapidated Charles Street jail violated inmates' rights-and then only after he spent a night in a cell. He took 15 months to consider evidence in a suit brought against the School Committee before ruling, in June 1974, that black children in Boston have been systematically deprived of their constitutional right to an equal education. Ever since, in a series of increasingly...