Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forties, and it was his first offense. Believing the marijuana laws to be more relaxed, he pleaded guilty, expecting to get probation. The judge sentenced him to a year in prison and asked if he had anything to say. The man said why not put him in jail forever if he was going to go to jail at all. The judge immediately complied by giving him the maximum--five years...
When a newsman asked whether he would appeal, the man said no he would not. He said if the American system was so rotten as to put him in jail for that offense at his age, he didn't care, he didn't want any part of its procedures. He didn't appeal...
...this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish dancer, painted by Sargent. The portrait Sargent did of her sits in the Gothic room...
Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. of the opposition Liberal Party-who would probably now be President had Marcos stepped down at the end of his elected term on Dec. 30-is still in jail on a raft of questionable charges, including murder. Hundreds of other political dissidents are also under detention. Marcos' heavyhanded use of martial law has come under increasing attack from the Roman Catholic Church, to which 90% of all Filipinos belong. The hierarchy has accused the government of harassment. Church schools have been taxed, foreign-born priests arrested and convents ransacked. Despite Marcos' periodic claims that...
...group has only one person in it," Collins said: "King Collins." When Harvard had him arrested for trespassing, inside of a week fundraising drives in Cambridge and New York raised almost $10,000 towards his bail--in 1963, the friends of a Harvard student sent to a Georgia jail for taking part in a civil rights demonstration had been able to raise about $2000 for his defense over several months. Undeterred, Collins went to Government 1b, where he called a question about "to what extent students are in control of themselves" "a pretty good fucking question." (A reporter once asked...