Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group was taken to the Court House jail where the police placed charges. According to a student, the State Police wanted to charge the group with obstructing state business as well as with trespassing, but that they were booked on just the trespassing charge. "When we were arraigned though," he said, "they added the obstruction charge." It is this charge and not that of trespassing which carries the penalty of one-year imprisonment...
...Radcliffe students complained of the treatment they received at the jail. "They didn't tell us our rights," one girl said, "and tried to get us to tell them more than we had to by saying we couldn't make any phone calls if we didn't give them information." Another said she was told she could use the phone later and was never given the opportunity...
...Gandar's sources. One by one, they were convicted of making false statements, on the strength of testimony from a parade of government witnesses -despite a presiding magistrate's suspicions that the witnesses were painting "too rosy a picture" of prison life. Strachan was sent back to jail and served 18 months. With the Mail's informants thus legally discredited, the government finally moved against Gandar, long a nettlesome critic, and against the reporter who wrote the original series, Benjamin Pogrund...
...Conner said that if he were arrested, he would receive 16 months in jail and a dishonorable discharge from the army. "You think I care?" he said. "This is a dishonorable country...
Died. George Papandreou, 80, ex-Premier of Greece, a shrewd, ruthless politician who found the climb more exhilarating than the view from Olympus; in Athens. In a career punctuated by exile, jail and revolution, Papandreou preached a consistently leftist line, fought both the monarchy and Nazi invaders, and became Premier of World War II's government in exile. With peace, he returned to head a left-wing coalition that brought him to power again in 1963. But he resigned in 1965 as the nation's economy declined, social unrest grew and his disputes with King Constantine became ever...