Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi once more tormented her tormentors. Under Indian law, the court appearance is a mere formality. As police were using tear gas to break up demonstrations outside the courtroom, Mrs. Gandhi defiantly told the presiding magistrate that she would not ask for bail and preferred to remain in jail. Government lawyers hedged when the magistrate asked them, again and again: "What do you want? What exactly is your prayer?" The government was afraid to take the risk of jailing her, and after 80 minutes of courtroom waffling, the judge released...
There is also pressure on James Kruger to resign as South Africa's powerful Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons. Kruger triggered an international furor by his seemingly casual handling of the death of the 30-year-old black leader Stephen Biko in a Pretoria jail (TIME, Sept. 26). The minister first strongly implied that Biko, who was detained for questioning under South Africa's tough internal security laws, had died as a result of a hunger strike. An inquest, expected to be held later this month, will inquire into the suspicious circumstances of the death. Kruger further...
Friends refused to post bail for Williams. While he was in jail, police discovered more than 2500 books at this home, and he was eventually tried on 20 counts of theft...
...House Committee on Un-American activities, Fast refused to release a list of contributors to the Spanish Refugee Appeal, a group providing medical help to the Spanish Republican forces opposing Franco's fascist movement. This refusal earned Fast, a director of the organization, a three-month term in jail for contempt of Congress. And for years afterward Fast was unable to find a publisher who would handle his work...
...read better than other novelists' plots. Before he was out of his teens he had, among other things, shipped on a sealing expedition to the Bering Sea, worked 14-hour days in a California cannery, ridden the hobo rails cross-country and served 30 days in a Buffalo jail for vagrancy. A heavy drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women, he gave every promise of going on to become a late-19th century rebel without a cause-one of those frontiersmen with no frontier whose energies slowly dissipate...