Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maximum five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine. The department took a middle course, charging the 64-year-old Helms with two misdemeanor counts of failing to answer senatorial questions "fully, completely and accurately." The penalty on each count is 30 days to a year in jail and a fine...
Schorr knew that it could not, that he would go to jail before he would ever divulge the identity of his source. Two months prior to his confrontation with Congress, Schorr, through a public statement, told the House Ethics Committee investigating the leak that he would "not give any testimony about the source." Nevertheless, the panel issued a subpoena requiring the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent to testify and face contempt of Congress charges if he refused either to appear or to answer question under oath...
...fateful end to a special friendship between a white and a black. Donald Woods, a fifth-generation English-speaking South African and editor of the feisty East London Daily Dispatch (circ. 30,000), is now a "banned person, as was his friend Steve Biko, who died in jail two months ago. It was in fact, Woods' crusade over the mystery surrounding Bik'o's death that probably led to his banning in the government's massive wave of detentions and crackdowns...
...Volcano (1947), and spent nearly every other waking hour looking for ways to destroy himself. His search for oblivion was as successful as it was arduous. Though born to a well-off British family, Lowry was penniless ^nd drunk for most of his adulthood. He did time in jail and in mental wards; he was down and out in Mexico, New York, Hollywood and British Columbia. Even the success of his book did little to exorcise his private demons. By the time Lowry died, in the midst of an all-night binge, in 1957, he had turned to after-shave...
...Fast, 62, was once the U.S.'s best-known literary Communist. In the '40s he wrote throbbingly about American history: the Revolutionary War in The Unvanquished and Citizen Tom Paine, Reconstruction in Freedom Road. As a political activist of the far left, he spent three months in jail during 1950 for failing to comply with a House Un-American Activities Committee subpoena. He was a columnist for the Daily Worker, a 1952 American Labor Party candidate for Congress, a 1953 winner of a Stalin Peace Prize and the most popular American author in the U.S.S.R. "There...