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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Return to the States usually promises only indictment for draft evasion, jail, and a huge fine. Attorney General Ramsey Clark prosecuted more than a thousand people under the Selective Service Act last year. With the new draft law, business is likely to increase...

Author: By George Hall, | Title: CANADA: A Place to Get Away From It All | 2/12/1968 | See Source »

Pennington said that he expects to end up in jail if "the case is decided in the near future, but the Army is so inconsistent anyway that it's hard to tell if they'll even carry through with trying to induct me on Monday...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Anti-War Demonstration to Protest Probe of UMass Faculty Radicals | 2/10/1968 | See Source »

...those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time-but having a name like Wilson makes it difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Trials of Harold | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...thing about Henry David Thoreau, when he talked about civil disobedience, he wasn't kidding. Because of his opposition to the Mexican War, he refused to pay a tax and was hustled off to jail. To express their own hostility to the Viet Nam war, 448 contemporary writers and journalists went along with Thoreau last week-or rather part of the way. Quoting Thoreau's ringing challenge to the state, the signers* announced in full-page ads in the New York Post and the New York Review of Books that "1) None of us voluntarily will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers: Part Way with Thoreau | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

That is not exactly the stuff of which martyrs are made. Chances of the tax surcharge being enacted are still doubtful. Even the one-third of the signers who refuse to pay present taxes are not likely to go to jail. Some of them haven't paid taxes for years on grounds of pacifism. Since they have reported their income and paid part of their tax, the Internal Revenue Service does not take them to court. It attaches their bank accounts or other assets to recover the rest of the tax, plus a penalty of 6% a year. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers: Part Way with Thoreau | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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