Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Giap sent elements of five of his North Vietnamese regulars, supported by Viet Cong local soldiers?an estimated 2,000 men in all. They seized the Citadel of the ancient royal palace, dug in and raised the Viet Cong flag atop its crumbling battlements. Then they released from jail some 2,500 prisoners, including 400 Viet Cong...
...action of local officials is open to censure on other grounds. Their wise decision yesterday to stop harassing and arresting the sellers of Avatar was hardly provoked by decent motives. They did not yield their hypocritical Victorian prejudices, but merely realized that they had clogged the City Jail. The courageous, staunchly libertarian stand taken by the several dozen Harvard students who sold Avatar in the wake of Monday's bust was undoubtedly one of the main reasons the officials compromised their spurious virtue...
Those taken into custody yesterday were charged with selling obscene literature. Conviction carries a penalty of up to two years in jail and a fine...
...going to send more and more people to sell papers until someone else does something about it [the arrests] or until we're all in jail and we can't do anything about it ourselves," he said...
...hoodwinked by the Puseys of the world who say that this college experience is to increase our understanding and to act on only later. But many of us understand that the war is wrong. We promise that we will act as soon as we graduate: we will go to jail or leave the country, or feign mental or physical sickness, pretend to have "got religion" and go to the Divinity School, or really put one over on them and promise to be teachers, go to the Ed School, and then quit when the war is over. Let's be honest...