Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision-making process," Trudeau has urged all Canadians to join in the coming constitutional debate, challenging them "to embark wholeheartedly on a journey whose destination is uncertain. Our country deserves more than a blind rush to some imagined Utopia, or a blind faith in the prejudices of the past...
...only trouble was that after it had been gone over and over, time and again, it began to lose meaning and, more important, relevance. It was not enough to endlessly call the demonstrators "Communists" and endlessly to denounce "police brutality." The crucial question about the riots, now three weeks past, is no longer merely who did what, with what, to whom. More important is why the melee occurred, and what it meant. So far, the press has failed sufficiently to plumb those questions...
With the censors immobilized, Czech newsmen wrote editorials attacking deposed Party Boss Antonin Novotny, even though he was still hanging on as president. Digging deep into the regime's Stalinist past, they hounded state security men, government prosecutors and party bosses for interviews, came out with documented stories of terror, torture and rigged purge trials. Nothing escaped their attention. Several Prague newspapers sent reporters to interview former political prisoners, published detailed charges that they had been regularly beaten by guards. Interior Minister Josef Pavel, himself a purge victim in 1951, revealed that the police had tried to extract...
...have fled to the West, but others have carried on. After Russian troops marched in to close them down, most Czech papers published underground editions. Television newscasters managed to broadcast from studios over portable army transmitters, and C.T.K., the government news agency, opened a clandestine telex service. Editors sneaked past Russian surveillance to confer with Dubček's cooperative aides, promised to try to appease the Russians by imposing self-censorship...
...court in the sheriff's windowless steel van. More than 3,000 inmates were interviewed at the city's three penal institutions-the Philadelphia Detention Center, the House of Corrections and Holmesburg Prison. By conservative estimates, says the report, 2,000 assaults took place in the past two years. And once a man has been attacked, he is marked as a target for homosexual advances. A few reluctantly enter "housekeeping" arrangements with the strongest attackers, who in turn protect them from other inmates...