Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dragged him away. They were not policemen. Sheik Zahaby, Egypt's former minister of religious affairs and a distinguished expert on Islam, was kidnaped by youthful Muslim extremists who threatened to execute him unless the government paid $300,000 and released 60 of their comrades from jail. Even while the government negotiated, the kidnapers last week carried out their threat. Three days after the sheik's disappearance, his body was discovered in a house near the pyramids at Giza. He had been tortured, strangled and shot through...
...better bring your toothbrush because we keep our word." That word means jail for the second serious offense. Explains Turner: "Rather than simply emphasize the needs of the child, we also figure we have a paramount duty to protect society...
...that Christ's rule had been established only in heaven, and that his Second Coming had occurred, but as a spiritual event. Because Satan still runs the earth, the Witnesses persistently refuse to serve in any army or to salute any flag -even if they must go to jail...
Jeff, a Berkeley Bakunin, worked at shutting down the Establishment and the war; Susie kept nagging him to take a shower and use deodorant. They became, writes Sara Davidson, "a showpiece couple. They demonstrated and went to jail together." They did everything together except levitate the Pentagon. Tasha, with her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, was the arty one. She fell in love with a well-known sculptor and worried about having small breasts...
From 1970 to 1973, agents of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division (since abolished) convened an estimated 100 grand juries in 80 cities in pursuit of assorted radicals, including associates of Daniel Ellsberg, Phillip Berrigan and Abbie Hoffman. Actual convictions were rare-but jail terms for contempt of the grand jury (refusal to answer questions) were not. Complaints about federal grand jury abuse have not been confined to the left, however. Last week General Motors Corp. Attorney George Moscarino accused IRS agents of abusing the system by summoning GM employees before a Detroit grand jury on what...