Word: prison
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Barry Rosen did not have to imagine. He was there. As the embassy's press officer in 1979, he was not only taken hostage at gunpoint but also accused of leading a spy ring and subjected to a mock trial. His punishment included months in a barren prison cell, where an always burning light bulb and constant stress made it almost impossible for him to sleep...
When you've spent 27 years in prison, every birthday is precious. NELSON MANDELA of South Africa made his 80th even more so by marrying his sweetheart, GRACA MACHEL, 52, the widow of a former President of Mozambique and an advocate for international child welfare. Rumors of wedlock had been rife, but Mandela had betrayed no hint of matrimony, even as he received birthday gifts early on Saturday at the presidential residence in Pretoria. Then, in the afternoon, a press conference of "national importance" was announced, luring reporters from Mandela's home outside Johannesburg. With the press...
...election, even if he did it by dumping money on the electorate. But Nigeria's military bosses refused to accept the result and annulled the election. A year later, after Abiola proclaimed himself President anyway, a new strongman, General Sani Abacha, charged him with treason and clapped him in prison. After four years of mostly solitary confinement, Abiola's spirit appeared to be broken. He was so eager to be released that he seemed to renounce his claim to the presidency in a conversation only two weeks ago with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
SENTENCED. AMY GROSSBERG, 20, and BRIAN PETERSON, 20; to 2 1/2 and 2 years in prison, respectively; in Wilmington, Del. The two pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of their newborn son in a Newark, Del., motel...
Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) emerges from the prison where he's just done a five-year stretch with three missions. The first, and most hilariously pressing, is to find a place to take a pee. The next is to find a girl willing to pose as his fiance and help him convince his sublimely indifferent parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he's been doing top-secret CIA work all the years he was in jail. The last is to assassinate the Buffalo Bills placekicker whose missed field goal caused him to lose the bet that led him into...