Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have imposed on Brazil a strict rule that recently has grown more repressive. At present, congress is "in recess," unions are forbidden to strike, and virtually all leading politicians are banned from participation in public life. The press and television are closely supervised. Dozens of Brazilians are in jail on unspecified political charges. Costa e Silva recently broadened the list of offenses punishable by jail sentences to include even talking or writing in terms that have a hidden meaning-an attempt to halt the double-entendres that Brazilian politicians, journalists and the people at large delight in using...
...angry protests were no surprise; he is not a stranger to controversy. A 1934 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he first caught the public eye when his freewheeling tactics as a defense attorney in the 1949 trial of eleven Communists earned him a four-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He continued to be active in civil libertarian causes, and was called an "enemy collaborator" by right-wing pamphleteers when he ran for his judgeship in 1966. All through his judicial career, though, he has enjoyed great popularity among Detroit's Negroes-and even among...
...mixed. Mrs. Kieu Mong Thu, a militant Buddhist member of the National Assembly, said that "President Thieu should have thought of this measure sooner." Supporters of Lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential elections who campaigned on a peace platform and is now in jail, reminded the world that Dzu was sentenced to five years at hard labor last year for suggesting direct talks with the N.L.F. "Thieu should get ten years," said a Saigon politician. A leader of the North Vietnamese Catholic refugees who came South after the 1954 armistice warned that "if this direct...
...Jail house Lawyer. Ray said that he was firing Foreman - to which the attorney retorted that his connection with the case had ended the moment that Ray was sentenced. Ray also indicated his intent to alter his plea to not guilty, even though conviction by a jury for murder in the first degree could land him on Nashville's Death...
...Timbrook: I didn't know I was doing anything that would send me to jail...