Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tarnished Copper. In Copenhagen, Inspector Povl Brondt, 51, Denmark's traffic-police chief, lost his right to drive for one year and got a 14-day jail sentence for drunken driving...
Bombs Away. In Lewellen, Neb., Prisoner Robert E. Gulp escaped from jail after squirting pressurized shaving cream into the sheriff's eyes...
...Slaughter. "What is coming is coming," cried Edusei in a street speech. "The job of the politician is to uproot his enemies. Others who are involved in the plot and have not been arrested will be, one by one." Those already in jail, added Edusei, would be kept there five years, and anyone visiting them more than four times would end up in prison too. Edusei then announced that the government was withdrawing the passports of members of the opposition, added that he had thousands of secret policemen at work watching for potential subversives. And what if the people...
...Communists" and "political groups who believe it is possible to restore the ousted dictatorship." When the plea failed, Frondizi acted. He fired Peronista-Wooer Frigerio. declared a 30-day state of siege, ordered a nationwide roundup of strike leaders. Within a few hours, 468 Peronistas and Communists were in jail...
...Sine got this way not even Sine can fully explain. But some of his spleen seemingly stems from his year in the army. He was a military misfit, spent months in jail. When he got out, Sine was fighting mad. ''I took up judo to get even with those s.o.b.s if I ever met any again. I hate all military paraphernalia, blustering ex-servicemen wearing medals, and by extension, every kind of cripple, however blameless...