Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband's commitment to ending the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled since 1936. Before the Somozas came to power, four Chamorros had been President of Nicaragua. Pedro Joaquin's editorials left no doubt that he hoped someday to continue the family tradition. His political outspokenness got him thrown into jail four times, but each time he emerged with even greater popularity, until he became a symbol of the mounting opposition to the dictator. On Jan. 10, 1978, as he drove to work in his red Saab, two shotgun- wielding assassins blew him to bits. Says Jaime Chamorro, Pedro's brother...
Bhutto spent her five years after Oxford in and out of jail because of her outspoken criticism of Zia and his military regime. Even though she was placed under house arrsest in solitary confinement, she continued to organize the Pakistan People's Party to fight the military dictator's government...
...disagreed with the government's decision to draft, I would go to jail in protest, but my responsibility to my country is to try to convince them of my position, and if I cannot, to pay the price of my civil disobedience...
Harvard can never jail me for arguing my opinion, nor do they have to accept it, although I doubt they will ever refuse my money. But when I receive my diploma, I will have a responsibility to give both to them, and maybe then they will listen...
Government sources denied a story in New York Newsday that a search of Truitt's Norfolk, Va., apartment after the Iowa explosion had netted detonating caps and a copy of the book How to Get Even Without Going to Jail. According to the newspaper, another copy of the book and a detonating device supposedly were found in Hartwig...