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Word: jailings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political reasons some 90,000 people, of whom about two-thirds were held for more than 72 hours. By conservative estimate, more than 3,000 of these prisoners were executed without trial or died of torture. There are thought to be at least 5,000 political prisoners in jail today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: South America: Notes on a New Continent | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...Congress of Racial Equality wished him "a lengthy stay in jail"; his old Black Panther comrades ignored him altogether. Such was the cold welcome given to onetime Black Militant Eldridge Cleaver, 40, who stepped off a plane from Paris at New York's Kennedy Airport after seven years of self-exile in Cuba, Algeria and France. Facing charges of parole violation and assault with intent to commit murder, stemming from a 1968 Shootout with police in Oakland, Calif., Cleaver was immediately arrested by FBI agents and flown to San Diego. "It's a new situation now. Black people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 1, 1975 | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Three burnt-out cases smolder on a Caribbean island. Roche, 45, is an altruistic white whose support of black causes once earned him torture in a South African jail. Now he is the house humanitarian for a local corporation, supervising a back-to-the-land project. Its design: to drain revolutionary energy away from foreign investments and native rulers. Jimmy Ahmed, a racial mix of yellow, black and white, runs this sham commune as a means of assembling responsive young boys; his heart is back in London, where trendy liberals once puffed him up from criminal to Third World celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burnt-Out Cases | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...public servant to defend himself in court on the basis that his illegal conduct "was required or authorized by law to carry out the defendant's authority." This provision would have allowed the Watergate conspirators to claim they were just following orders. S.1 would let them out of jail. And in what may become the government's most effective weapon to keep the public uninformed, the bill would allow a bureaucrat at almost any level of government to classify material only vaguely related to national security...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: S.1 Must Be Stopped | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

...jail murders and the emotional Bengalis' reaction to the news apparently convinced the generals that it was time to oust the upstarts. Early Monday morning, soldiers loyal to the generals took up positions outside the presidential palace. As helicopters and MIGs made mock strafing runs over the palace, the majors negotiated a deal: surrender of power in exchange for safe-conduct passage for themselves and their families to Thailand. Among those who promptly applied for political asylum in the U.S. and Pakistan was Lieut. Colonel Sayed Farook Rahman, instigator of the August coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANGLADESH: Coups and Chaos | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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