Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chile. Church sources say that more than 1,000 political prisoners have been killed by the harsh rightist regime of General Augusto Pinochet since the 1973 overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende. Thousands more are still in jail. A strict curfew is in effect, critical foreign journalists are regularly barred from the country, and its own press is tightly muzzled...
Bribes and Kickbacks. Scandal hurt too. On the day that the Labor convention opened, longtime Party Stalwart Asher Yadlin (TIME, Jan. 17) was sentenced to five years in jail and fined $28,000; in a confession that shook the nation, Yadlin admitted accepting bribes and kickbacks to the union medical programs that he ran and channeling "millions of pounds" into party coffers...
...Every crime is a masterpiece," Grover Bagby tells Chaucer when that poor butler is in jail. With its neat plot, irrepressible music, and at times brilliant lyrics, Softly Stealing is not quite a masterpiece. But at times this original crime story seems to come very, very close...
...Suddenly the night air was filled with shouts. As some Norwegian counterespionage agents charged from behind trees and snowbanks, others jumped from cruising taxicabs. They swiftly wrestled the man to the ground, grabbed a packet that he had given Haavik and hustled the woman off to jail. The trusted, spinsterly Miss Haavik, who routinely handled secret documents, had been a Soviet spy for more than 27 of her 30 years in the Foreign Ministry...
...years as an agent, Haavik collected a paltry $9,500. If convicted as a spy she could get 15 years in jail -a prisoner of love...