Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This has been a bad season for Washington institutions. Jimmy Hoffa has gone to jail, the House has thrown out Adam Powell, and taxation without representation in the District of Columbia is on the ropes...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Barrie Ingham plays a young Lancashireman who falls victim to a London crook, is wrongly accused of forgery and sent to jail. Free again on a "ticket-of-leave" for good behavior, he sets out to track the crook and settle accounts...
Last week Tshombe sat in a shuttered police cell in Algiers, having been kidnaped on a private airplane over the Mediterranean and flown into Algeria. The Congolese government immediately asked Algeria to extradite him so that the sentence of execution could be carried out. Even in jail, however, Tshombe haunted Mobutu. Outraged by his abduction, Tshombe's followers in the eastern part of the Congo rose in revolt, seized two important towns and raised fears that the country might be plunged into another bloody civil...
Former People's Court Judge Hans Joachim Rehse, 64, a member of Hitler's highest political tribunal, was sentenced to five years in jail for levying "unjustifiable death sentences." As a judicial consultant to the People's Court from 1941 to 1945, Rehse lived up to the letter of Nazi law, which called upon the courts to act "not as men of justice whose eyes are masked. The court must view the idea and purposes of the state leadership as primary, and the fate of human beings as secondary...
...lieutenant, David Yorck, was tried separately and found innocent. Wilkerson was found guilty and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Three weeks ago, a reviewing authority reduced the jail sentence to 30 years, and with the help of civilian attorney Matthew H. Brandenburg, Wilkerson will appeal even that sentence. Similarly, in March, four Air Cavalry troopers, convicted of participating in the rape-murder of a 20-year-old Vietnamese farm girl during a reconnaissance patrol, were all dishonorably discharged and given sentences ranging from eight years to life, according to their degree of involvement in the crime. Last...