Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercy of the court-his wife, after all, had not accused him of using force, and he was sure he would get a suspended sentence or at most a short term. Instead, to his surprise, he was sentenced to from two to 14 years in the Indiana state prison...
While condemning the use of marijuana and supporting strict penalties for those who sell it, the statement calls present penalties for possession of pot "unrealistic." First offenders, who now face up to ten years in prison for possession, should not be treated harshly, the medical groups recommend. Only penalties for second and third offenses, they add, should be made gradually more severe. And they feel that "additional research is needed to determine more about the effects of marijuana" before anyone should make up his mind about...
...detective politely questioned a Brussels-bound passenger at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, Ray eluded a worldwide professional manhunt fortified by a $100,000 reward for his capture. Last week, with the accused assassin immured in a maximum-security cell in Southwest London's Wandsworth prison, policemen unraveled the nexus of plastic faces, borrowed identities and bogus papers that he had woven for two months across two continents...
...senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...
...night, Saigon turns into a honeycomb of private prison cells, the result of a dreary curfew; people withdraw into their houses, or hovels, in nervous anticipation of the next attack. The lights often dim and fade out, air conditioners collapse with a rattling whisper, and the streets outside lie dark and silent. Hundreds of wealthy South Vietnamese have forsaken the city for the seaside resort of Vung Tau. The Japanese government has ordered all its citizens who are not indispensable to leave the country. Many American civilians have taken to spending their nights at the heavily guarded, although frequently rocketed...