Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, the outfit that sponsored the Freedom Rides. Said he: "We do not ask the police of the South to be partisans, partial to our side; we do ask you to be impartial." Negroes, said Farmer, "are not afraid to go to jail now. They wear jail sentences as badges of honor. Not even being shot at terrorizes them. These people aren't going to stop...
...Twelve members of oil-rich Kuwait's 50-man legislature formally requested unity with the U.A.R. Even Nasser's traditional enemies, the monarchies of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, made efforts at reconciliation. Jordan's King Hussein discreetly let 56 Nasserite and Baathist political prisoners out of jail and sent off friendly feelers to Nasser. In Saudi Arabia, alarmed by a pro-Nasser demonstration that cost 19 lives, Premier Prince Feisal tried to modernize his regime by allotting $1,200,000 as compensation to slave owners who would free their chattels...
...against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last earned Kadar a measure of grudging acceptance from the population; fortnight ago he took his biggest step yet by releasing the last group of revolutionary leaders who were still in jail (although up to several hundred rank-and-file Freedom Fighters are still believed to be behind bars), and by setting the stage for the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from his refuge in Budapest's U.S. legation (TIME, APRIL...
...Office denied him entry. His London nightclub booking set off a parliamentary furor-"If we want four-letter words," sniffed a Tory M.P., "we can train our own people"-but that was the least of Lenny's worries. Back home, he was booked solid. Appealing a one-year jail sentence for an obscenity conviction in Chicago, he faced a similar charge in California, plus two narcotics raps. Wherever he roamed, Lenny seemed to be in sick transit...
...three Citizens Councils and has an eye on a Democratic nomination for the state legislature, brought charges against Kerciu-desecration of the Confederate flag by "obscene and indescent [as the charge spelled it] words and phrases." Arrested by Oxford police, Kerciu posted a $500 bond, came out of jail to find that his associates on the traditionally timid Ole Miss faculty had rallied behind him and are planning to help him put up a hard fight at his trial early next month...