Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mindful of his critics and fearful of a Communist attack, Khanh seized the opportunity to consolidate his power by decreeing a "state of urgency" empowering the government to ban strikes and demonstrations, impose censorship and travel curbs, search private homes at will, and jail "elements considered dangerous to national security." Violators of public order were to be handed over to military courts; terrorists, saboteurs and "speculators harmful to the national economy" who were caught redhanded were to be sentenced to death. That night, an 11 o'clock curfew was clamped on Saigon, and censors moved in on the capital...
Cummings was released from jail on $500 bail Wednesday...
Singing the Internationale, 300 admirers greeted Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, on his release from a Mexico City jail, hoisted him on their shoulders and pressed a bunch of red, red roses into his arms. The Mexican government had set the fiery old Communist painter free after he had served four years of an eight-year sentence for inspiring a 1960 leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced...
...more Harvard undergraduates tangled with Mississippi justice over the weekend. Peter Orris '67 was one of 98 people including both civil rights workers and local Negroes arrested Friday in Greenwood, Miss. He and the others remained in jail over the weekend and were in jail and fined $100 each by the city court...
...suspected, was a rapist, and she fought him off with her knife. Result: the police arrested him-and her. Reason: New York's stiff Sullivan Law bans switchblade knives. Up for trial this week, Victim Del Fava, 27, faces a maximum penalty of seven years in jail and a $1,000 fine...