Word: prison
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...South Africa's George Washington, the revolutionary turned President who has overseen the birth of a nation. His popularity is phenomenal. Eighty-three percent of urban blacks say he is doing well, while 55% of whites agree. In November 1993, almost four years after his release from prison and five months before South Africa's first democratic elections, Mandela's approval rating among whites stood at a mere 4%. In fact, today Mandela is more vital to white hopes than black, for among whites he is the indispensable man, the Grand Reconciler. Whites look at the economic wreckage elsewhere...
...Antonio, Texas, senior suddenly found himself in deep trouble. He had no money for bail, no funds to hire a lawyer and, thanks to a law Congress had passed two years earlier that banned guns within 1,000 ft. of a school, little chance of escaping a six-month prison sentence...
...former communist areas. In Turkey, a nato member, more than 70 journalists were in jail at the end of last year. Despite much progress in Latin America, licensing of journalists and other controls are widespread. Argentina recently threatened to pass a law providing up to 10 years of prison for "dishonoring the name of a politician...
...great many Americans today feel that this is just about the treatment appropriate to our journalists. Elsewhere in the world, they are in fact treated almost that way. In 1994, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 58 members of the press were assassinated and 173 were in prison in 23 countries at the end of the year...
...struggle, Drollet was killed. "The messenger of misery has come to my house," Brando told attorney William Kunstler that night. Christian, who was represented by both Kunstler and Robert Shapiro, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter, but with time off for good behavior, he may be out of prison as early as next January...