Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that extent, Sinyavsky's jail may be quieter, if not worse, than hell...
...with last week's rebels. After a hurried court-martial, 34 Bahutu gendarmes were executed by a firing squad in the Bujumbura stadium. A bleak future probably also lay ahead for several leading Bahutu politicians, including the former president of Burundi's Parliament, who were clapped in jail and charged with complicity...
...Even the most liberal God offers only one freedom of choice: to believe or not to believe. Communism offers just about the same right. If you don't want to believe, you can go to jail-which is by no means worse than hell...
...point where President Arturo Illia decided to forbid all Peronista demonstrations. Next morning 5,000 well-armed police patrolled Buenos Aires streets. Out came some 6,000 Peronistas-as much to taunt the cops as cheer Perón. By nightfall, more than 600 of the rioters were in jail. Isabel had dropped out of sight, and Perón's tape-recorded message had gone undelivered. President Illia then warned that any unions dabbling in politics would lose their legal rights. The Peronistas called for a 24-hour general strike, but it was only partially successful...
...York City: "Suppose you're convinced that you'd crack up mentally if you went into the service," he says. "You don't have the requisite philosophical stance to satisfy the legal requirements for conscientious objection, so you'd have to go to jail for refusing to fight, and you're convinced you'd crack up there. What alternatives do you have? If you think you have to go to the draft board and pretend you're a homosexual, then O.K. We don't counsel that, but we don't think...