Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Espinosa proclaimed himself President, decreed a Christmas bonus for all work ers, and broadcast a call for popular revolt. Santiago's police chief politely invited Espinosa over to the Police Palace for "friendly talks," then unceremoniously tossed him into jail, thus ending the affair...
Skeleton Search. Last week, because of his pathological penchant for bragga docio, Schmid was in jail, charged with the murders of two daughters of a Tucson surgeon. Along with two friends - one a 19-year-old girl - he was also accused of murdering a third girl. Police, who had found the two sisters' skeletons on the desert, last week were still searching for the third...
...leader of Students for a Democratic Society, John Maher '60, replied that, in that case "Some of us will go to jail, others will go into the Armed Forces because what we have to say should be brought to people there...
...strategic holds was in Nigeria's Western region, where Chief Samuel Akintola's pro-North government faced apparently overwhelming opposition. Akintola himself had little popular support; he had been appointed Premier three years ago after a blatant power play that sent anti-North Chief Obafemi Awolowo to jail. But when regional assembly elections rolled around last month, Akintola showed that there was more than one way to win the West. To the surprise of hardly anyone, he rigged the elections...
Nevertheless, in a chilling study of Southern "law enforcement" that was issued last week, the congressionally created U.S. Civil Rights Commission appointed by the President recounted case after case of excessive bail, deliberate court delays, harsh sentences and cruel jail conditions-all tactics that were used to cow Negroes long before the civil rights movement got started. Calling for federal action, the commission urged on-the-spot FBI arrests and injunctive relief against state prosecutions of citizens trying to exercise First Amendment rights, such as peaceful assembly...