Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded up 28 newsmen and trucked them to jail...
...jail" is a common command in the ever-popular game Monopoly. But in the real world, businessmen who break antitrust laws are hardly ever put behind bars; only 38 violators of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act have been sentenced to jail in that law's 84-year history. Now that situation could be changing. As part of its struggle against the nation's roaring inflation, the Ford Administration has announced plans for a sweeping new assault against anticompetitive practices, including price-fixing conspiracies and agreements between companies not to sell in each other's prime market areas...
...prospects for an improved police-community relationship are not good, at least in the immediate future. The circumstances surrounding the death of 17-year-old East Cambridge resident Larry Largey in a Cambridge jail cell two years ago remain unknown today because of the failure of police to carry out a thorough internal investigation...
Tens of thousands of citizens have demonstrated in Saigon streets and in major cities and towns throughout Vietnam during the past two months. And despite the threat of violence and jail sentences by Thieu's police force, the number of protesters has increased markedly in recent weeks. Demands for Thieu's resignation have come from 32 members of the South Vietnamese National Assembly, the leader of the country's largest labor union, and at least two popular opposition movements--the Popular Movement of Struggle Against Corruption for National Salvation and the Reestablishment of Peace--and a swelling Catholic anti-corruption...
Despite periodic brouhahas over rulings on pornography, courts rarely jail anyone for peddling or promoting smut. The last defendant of note to do any time was Ralph Ginzburg, who served eight months for the prurient promotion of his magazine Eros. Now, however, three prominent pornicators-an actress, a publisher and a reformed smut merchant-face the threat of prison...