Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possessed equally by his love for Russia and his passion for freedom. To the Stalinists, his enemies, he is the arch-accuser, the self-appointed prosecutor, blackening Russia's name abroad. His works blaze with the indignation of a man who knows his enemy: he spent eleven years in prison, slave-labor camps and exile. His books, as one of the establishment's tame writers once charged, are "more dangerous for us than those of Pasternak. Pasternak was a man detached from life, while Solzhenitsyn is combative, determined." In a time of unprecedented dissent in Russia, Solzhenitsyn stands...
...went out to distribute literature to the people of Mexico City. The police arrested many of these students. Arrests ran as high as 125 per day, but most of these were released the next day. Parents who reported disappearances were often told that their children were in prison for voicing communist ideas. If they attempted to defend their children, they too were branded communist and imprisoned. It should be mentioned at this point that the parents and the faculty supported the students from the start. When I was at the university hundreds of parents came there one evening to hear...
Discovering a Lie. However easy or unpleasant his prison stay, the draft evader who has served his time soon finds that his problems are not over, despite the fact that social censure is usually no more a problem than it was before conviction. By and large, the resisters have families and friends who stick with them through their crusade; many return to school or go to work around universities or in peace movements. But all felons are still legally eligible for the draft. Even though the law suggests that those convicted of crimes punishable by more than a year...
...felons, draft resisters cannot vote in some states, drive cars, own property, work for a government agency or get licenses for certain businesses and professions. In San Francisco, Robert Anderson, 26, a college graduate, decided that it was best to lie about his prison record when he applied for a job at the Bechtel Corp. His employer discovered the truth. Although he was allowed to keep his $90-a-week job as an office boy, Anderson is now convinced that he will have an endless amount of trouble advancing above the level of "a flunky...
While most of the resisters are earnest, well-meaning crusaders who feel that time served in prison has toughened their character, they are learning that many people regard them simply as ex-cons-and look on them with persistent disdain. Such treatment may not come as a surprise to the resisters. But it still hurts...