Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This story, making the rounds of Harlem, illustrates the Negro's attitude toward the growing controversy over Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (TIME, Dec. 30). Powell may be an absentee Congressman, a fugitive from a jail sentence and any number of other reprehensible things-but he is regarded as a Negro who has made it in a white man's world. That makes all the difference. Powell's personal problems, which seem to mount day by day, last week threatened to become an unfortunate facet of the civil rights movement...
...Unless this conflict can be eased," the letter stated, "the United States will find some of her most loyal and courageous young people choosing to go to jail rather than to bear the country's arms, while countless of others condone or even utilize techniques for evading their legal obligations...
Powell could, however, by a simple majority vote, be seated only provisionally pending an investigation of his conduct. He seems undisturbed by even that prospect. Under such a sanction, he would continue drawing his $30,000-a-year salary and could, if he managed to escape jail, continue to live in Adam's Eden pretty much as he does...
...echelon of the German Communist Party. He was Ulbricht's pal and peer, gave orders to many of the men who now make up East Germany's coterie of bosses. Arrested in Sweden in 1941, he renounced Communism from his jail cell and was expelled from the party. Ever since, his former comrades have regarded him as a traitor and a menace. Twice their gunmen have tried to kill him, and his appointment as All-German Affairs Minister brought bitter screams of rage from Pankow...
...penalties were nominal: suspended sentences of 30 days in jail, plus fines of $200 for Stevenson and $50 for Whittaker. More significant was the loss of a test case: Stevenson had hoped to help ease the doctor shortage by establishing the right of a well-trained technician to assist in surgery...