Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, and suddenly the terrorist broke into tears. Then Zahedi returned to the Koran. "You could see a rapport building," recalls Ghorbal. "Trust and confidence were sinking in." Finally after two hours, Khaalis blurted out what was most on his mind: he did not want to go to jail, he wanted to go home...
Released from jail early in 1935, Chiang Ch'ing resumed her acting career, gaining some fame for her portrayal of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and then appearing in several popular films. In 1937, however, her career as an actress came to an end. At the time, Japan began its full-scale invasion of China. The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province...
After picking up some bruises, jail time and a criminal record during the late '60s war protests, I cite Matthew 7:3: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" At least the Russians aren't told they have the right of protest...
...left the country without incident. But Brian Schwartz, 24, a Yale Law School graduate from New York City, was detained for three days, interrogated by Ugandan police and roughed up; twice he was taken to lonely places by machine gun-toting guards, but each time he was returned to jail. Luckily he managed to throw a piece of paper bearing his name and passport number to a Canadian on the street below. The paper found its way to the West German embassy, which has handled U.S. affairs there since the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Uganda in 1973. Next...
...sometimes called the political heir of Mahatma Gandhi. It was he who declared two years ago that police and soldiers were not obliged to follow orders they regarded as unlawful -and thereby gave the government an excuse for imposing the emergency in June 1975. Narayan spent five months in jail without trial but was released in November 1975, when he appeared to be near death from kidney disease. For months he has been obliged to go either to Bombay or his home in Patna every two or three days for dialysis treatment. Last week, exhausted, he entered a hospital...