Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death weapon is an odd object for cheering. So, for that matter, is Joan Little. But the chants of some 500 demonstrators merely echoed the uniqueness of the case that came to trial last week in Raleigh, N.C. What began as an obscure slaying in a small-town Southern jail has burgeoned into an expensive legal struggle and an emotional national controversy. Supporters of Joan Little, the 21-year-old black defendant, have raised nearly $300,000 through nationwide appeals; the state of North Carolina and its Wake County are spending some $100,000 to provide lavish trial security...
...could presumably have been prosecuted. Certainly the Nixon Administration's high-level lying about the B-52 bombing of Cambodia would have been actionable. Of course, Ted Kennedy is politician enough not to want to apply the law to campaign promises and political rhetoric - such a prohibition might jail nearly every elected official in the nation, depending on how rigorously one defined...
Sangh, a right-wing Hindu organization that has become the largest opposition party in the country and whose leaders are now in jail. Speaking in New Delhi, she declared: "There are people in this country who have tried to put every kind of pressure and obstacle in the path of our forward development." To prevent her opponents from "seizing power [and] bypassing democratic methods," she argued, she had to take democracy "somewhat off the rails." So far, however, Mrs. Gandhi has provided no real evidence of a sizable conspiracy. Although police raids of the offices of extremist parties produced caches...
...have been no reforms since Khrushchev's modest relaxations more than 15 years ago. Sakharov patiently conducts his lost cause from a bleak Moscow apartment that is a mecca for Soviets in trouble with the KGB-and for Westerners whose respectful visits help the scientist stay out of jail. No students, not even a one-man demonstration, speak up for Solzhenitsyn or Sakharov, or even against pollution...
Amnesty's success has grown in proportion to its reputation. White mentions that prisoners often receive more food and better treatment once it is known that Amnesty has adopted their case. "In countries where repression is a serious issue, everybody in the jails knows about us," she says. Amnesty's services extend beyond merely obtaining a prisoner's release. The organization sometimes supports a prisoner's family while he is in jail, and often helps him to reorganize his life after he is out. White stresses that Amnesty does not only adopt famous dissidents, but "the little guy who nobody...