Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white anti-apartheid newspaper editor (Kevin Kline). Coming next spring is Atlantic's A World Apart, about a family caught in the racial strife of the 1960s, with Barbara Hershey. Also planned: The Long Weekend, to star Julian Sands as Neil Aggett, the first white activist to die in jail...
...There are plenty of people who are crazy," Barrett said. "Some get elected. Some go to jail...
Arrested in 1974 for organizing a rally for rebels in Mozambique, Ramaphosa spent eleven months in jail. He was held for six more months in 1976 under the Terrorism Act, one of a battery of South African laws aimed at cracking down on dissidents. Since then, Ramaphosa has moved away from the Biko philosophy that only blacks have a role to play in overthrowing apartheid and toward the view that all racial groups should join in ending the system...
...Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne wears a crimson A as punishment for adultery. In Portland, Ore., Richard Bateman may wear a similar badge of shame when released from jail in two months. At his sentencing in May, Judge Dorothy M. Baker knew that he was unlikely to spend a long time behind bars in the overcrowded prison system, despite his history of molesting young children. So she ordered that for four years after his release, Bateman, 47, must post signs on his home and on both sides of any vehicle he drives that read, in letters at least three inches high...
...time Mswati was installed as King last year, however, Mfanasibili was in deep trouble. His enemies on the Liqoqo had rallied against him, leading to Mfanasibili's trial and subsequent conviction on charges of framing his political opponents. He was given a seven-year jail sentence. Five months later Mswati, in a spirited gesture of independence, fired his Prime Minister and cousin, Bhekimpi Dlamini, before a crowd of thousands, and then appointed a former personal bodyguard to the job. Finally, in May the King ordered the arrest and detention of Bhekimpi and eleven others, including five princes and princesses...