Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equals one drink. The U.S. might be wise to emulate Sweden, where police routinely stop drivers and take suspected drinkers to the station house for blood tests; anyone with more than .05% alcohol in his blood stream (about one cocktail) is sentenced to as much as six months in jail. That is more than many a drunken driver in the U.S. gets for killing a child with...
...Everyone in Cuba is bitter," said one young mother from Camaguey, who arrived in Miami last week. "There isn't much food, rice is rationed, and you have to stand in line every day for coffee. Cuba is a jail." Added her husband, a former railroad shop foreman: "They don't give you work if you are not with the government, and if you are with the government, you have to cut sugar cane, join the militia and stand guard." Cubans who decide to leave lose everything. Those in nonessential jobs are summarily fired, and must sign over...
Stewart was especially incensed by what he viewed as the court's decision to jail Ginzburg (who is also the publisher of a magazine called Fact) for reasons other than the charges against him. "Ginzburg was not charged with 'commercial exploitation,'" he said. "He was not charged with 'pandering'; he was not charged with 'titillation.' " Not only did the court thus "deny him due process of law," Stewart continued, but Ginzburg was going to prison for crimes that no federal statute condemns...
...based End the Draft Committee and its monthly publication Downdraft, but maintains that he would fight to defend his country against attack. Both refuse to apply for classification as conscientious objectors-though neither has shown any reticence about offering his conscience as Exhibit A in court-and both face jail terms...
...likely. "I have no intention," said Miller, "of obeying any of the judge's directives, even if I have to go to jail." Imprisonment, as he sees it, "is one of the responsibilities of being a Christian witness." Miller's lawyers then filed a notice of appeal, which had the effect of staying the probation terms and keeping Miller at least temporarily out of convict's garb or G.I.'s fatigues...