Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro in Viet Nam" [May 26] is a well-deserved tribute to the courage, devotion and intelligence of the black troops serving in battle. However, one statement in your excellent report cannot go unchallenged. Noting that the proportion of Negro inmates in the military prison at the Long Binh jail is the same as that of white inmates, TIME asserts: "Unlike Negroes in previous wars, the Viet Nam breed is well disciplined...
...Denver, demonstrators with black arm bands protesting capital punishment formed a silent procession in front of the Statehouse, while in Canon City a similarly grim tableau formed alongside the walls of the Colorado State Prison. Inside, Luis Jose Monge calmly prepared to die for the brutal murder in 1963 of his wife and three of his ten children. Resisting a nationwide trend against capital punishment (TIME, April 21), Colorado voters last November voted 2 to 1 to retain the death penalty, and the state was about to execute its 77th prisoner...
Waving their bolos, they charged straight into the stuttering M-16s of the Constabulary. Within minutes, 33 of them lay dead, 47 wounded. The rest were arrested for sedition and put in prison...
Such is the charge by a special task force of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. A follow-up to the presidential crime report last February, the new study, led by Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, makes it chillingly clear that prison may be only a minor episode in the bleak future of U.S. felons...
...feel so strongly that we will not fight, then we should refuse to serve; specifically, sign the "We Won't Go" petition, work for "Vietnam Summer," and prepare to go to prison. If we do not feel so strongly as to go to jail rather than to war, then we should sign the "Negotiate Now" petition, perhaps work for "Vietnam Summer," but prepare to be drafted. If we feel that the war is right -- enlist...