Word: marches
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Irreparably Deluded. Solzhenitsyn escaped his prison hell on March 5, 1953, when he was released after serving his eight-year sentence. On the first day of his freedom, the local radio carried the bulletin announcing Stalin's death. Even though out of the camp, he still had to live in exile in Siberia. He began putting down on paper the stories he had worked over in his mind during his imprisonment...
...Then, on March 29, in the first pronouncement on cultural policy by a top leader since Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev attacked "the abominable deeds of these double-dealers," the intellectuals who had protested the writers' trials, and promised that "these renegades" would be punished. Another trial was held in Leningrad, with 17 intellectuals convicted on the bizarre and clearly fabricated charge of conspiracy to replace the Soviet government with a democracy under the Russian Orthodox Church. Mass expulsions from the Writers and Artists Unions began; this meant loss of jobs and apartments. Among those expelled was Solzhenitsyn's close friend...
...noncontroversial writers as Will Durant and Paul Claudel. Political opponents of the regime are regularly put into preventive detention for up to six months. The P.I.D.E. jailed Mario Scares, a lawyer and leading critic of the Salazar regime, a total of 13 times before exiling him without trial last March to the tiny island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea. The number of legal emigrants and clandestinos voting against Salazar with their feet rose dramatically from 34,000 in 1961 to some...
Last week the federal court system moved to take jury duty out of the hands of the privileged few. The courts were obeying the Federal Jury Selection Act passed by Congress last March, which called on U.S. District Courts to submit sweeping changes by Sept. 23. The new rules provide a method of random selection from lists of registered voters, guarantee that jurors will be chosen from each county in proportion to its population. In the South, where many thousands of Negroes have registered in recent years, there will now be a vastly increased chance for them to serve...
...August 28, the army said that the government would have to leave. When the demonstrators refused, army tanks and soldiers, reinforced by the city police, forced the people out of the Zocalo. They left screaming, "Mexico Freedom." When the people were out on the street they decided to march to the University. The army, however, was determined to scatter the mob, and did so by chasing them down the street with clubs, rifle butts and bayonets. Rifles and machine guns were used to fire into the crowd. Wounded or hurt bodies were run over by the tanks in their pursuit...