Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from reading philosophy in jail, state officials claimed, Ma Duncan had plotted to kill a matron and break out. At her clemency hearing, her son Frank, 33, argued that his mother was "periodically" mentally ill; that "she had a tremendous fear of, frankly, losing me. She needed someone to whom she could come home, someone to cook for, to keep house for," he contended, ignoring the fact that Mrs. Duncan had been married at least ten times. There was no public drive to save Mrs. Duncan; of 220 messages on her case reaching Governor Brown, 165 urged that...
Next: Film. Weaned to regular jobs, Streetcorner's first 30 boys cut their average arrests to 2-4 in the four-year period, against 4-7 for a comparable control group. They spent a total of 69 months in jail, compared to 134 for the outsiders. The researchers are now experimenting with such ideas as lending cameras to delinquents so they can film their own lives. Another "laboratory" has been set up in a Cambridge barroom...
Addressing Washington's National Press Club last week-in between stays in the Albany, Ga., jail-Martin Luther King Jr. put his case for the tactics and philosophy of nonviolent resistance. It went over noticeably better in Washington than it has in Georgia. Excerpts...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 54%. From tribal institutions and British rule, most Ghanaians comprehend representative government, but Moscow-leaning Kwame Nkrumah misrules country as autocracy. Opposition has only eight members in 112-seat Parliament, many more are in jail...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 60%. Unrest led jolly, ultra-conservative President Hubert Maga, 45, to jail opposition leaders last year. Western-style politics barely understood outside two main cities...