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...against her and her husband Asif Zardari so she could return from exile to run for office and regain the Prime Ministership. Nevertheless, Bhutto said that "extra-constitutional" methods were unnecessary and that martial law will only exacerbate Islamic militancy and terrorism. Meanwhile, the capital of Islamabad was in lockdown, with no demonstrations in sight as the roads surrounding the Supreme Court building were blocked by tanks and barbed wire and lined with hundreds of security personnel...
...rest of the world--actually, a little more. What we have to celebrate, after all, is not just what the Soviets achieved but the way we reacted to it--at least after we got hold of ourselves. Moscow, we figured, was already scary enough, what with Eastern Europe under lockdown and a bristle of missiles protecting it. There was no reason to make the bad guys badder; instead, we ought to make ourselves smarter...
Until they win a change in sentencing guidelines, activists hope to win support for their cause simply by spreading the word. They hope a planned wide release of a documentary entitled Lockdown USA, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, will help restart a push for reform. "The problem is that they are using a prison cell to address what should be public health issue," says Gabriel Sayegh, a project director at the Drug Policy Alliance. "This isn't the criminal justice system we're supposed to have in this country...
...January 27, 1967, just 21 months before Schirra's mission took off, the Apollo command module had killed three of his colleagues, when a spark ignited its pure oxygen atmosphere, immolating Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a lockdown rehearsal on the pad. Everyone at NASA already knew that the so-far unflown Apollo was a lemon. Not long before the three men died, they sat for a photo session with a model of the command module resting on a table in front of them it. In one of the outtakes never released to the press, they dropped...
...Much of Beirut was on lockdown Friday, a scene all too familiar in recent months, with schools and universities closed and hundreds of riot police and soldiers in armored vehicles stationed on street corners. In the Sunni neighborhood of Qasqas, hundreds of Sunni and Druze mourners converged on the Kashikji mosque for the funeral of the two victims...