Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protesters refused to budge. The cops hauled them out one by one. Some of the demonstrators, several of whom were white, began fighting back. Billy-clubs began swinging, and before long some of the demonstrators were nursing bloodied heads. In all, 23 of them were carried off to jail...
...command of most of Brazil's labor unions and state enter prises, including Petrobrás. Meanwhile, the arrests and imprisonments by the new government continued with a grim purpose that sent shivers up many Brazilian spines. No one knew how many people were locked up in jail. But the total of those stripped of their political rights climbed to 167, among them Celso Furtado, 43, the leftist but non-Communist boss of the successful development program in Brazil's impoverished Northeast...
During the St. Petersburg textile strikes of 1895, Vladimir was arrested, spent a year in jail, followed by three years' banishment to Siberia. "It is in prison," he said later, "that one becomes a real revolutionary...
Angry Agreement. It was just this sort of talk that got the Lion thrown in jail the first time. Members of Nehru's Congress Party and the opposition found themselves for once in angry agreement, many of them demanding that the sheik be rearrested. Said Nehru's heir apparent, Minister Without Portfolio Lai Bahadur Shastri, with perhaps just a touch of that self-righteousness his boss had criticized: "There is, of course, complete freedom of expression in India. But there can be no freedom for preaching some kind of independence or secession from the Indian union...
They move fast when the carabinieri arrive. Shots fly, a policeman falls. The shepherd, sure he will be implicated and afraid his sheep will die if he is sent to jail, heads for the hills and runs his flock far back among the granite desolations. The police come after him with tommy guns, and after a forced march the sheep collapse and die. Ruined, the shepherd bitterly determines to ruin others. In the movie's savage final scene he comes down like a hungry wolf on a fold and steals an entire flock from a man as poor...