Word: prisoner
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Final Victory. Although the Senate version excused loans with less than $10 interest, the House put them back in the bill, because small loans are the ones that most often soak the poor. A Republican amendment even made loan sharking a federal crime worth a max imum 25-year prison term. The House demonstrated its greatest solicitude for consumers, however, in an amendment to guard the first $30 of any paycheck from garnishment actions, in which creditors sue employers for part of a debtor's salary. Garnishments were limited to 10% of anything over $30, and employers were barred...
Giap's life has not been easy. He married in 1938 and fathered a girl, but his wife was arrested by the French and died in prison while he was in China; he has since remarried. An emotional man whose temper often got the better of his cool-and earned him the nickname of "The Volcano and the Snow"-he has, at times, been put down by Ho. An outburst against a French general in 1945 cost him a place on the negotiating team that tried to win independence from France at the end of World...
Call for Peace Talks. At week's end, none of the group was laughing. After a quick drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted...
...most people outside penitentiary walls, the term prison reform is a meaningless abstraction. Only when the particular problems of a particular prison break into the open is there public pressure for correction. Such was the case in Arkansas last week. For years, Arkansas legislators have been referring to their two large convict farms as a "model system." The farms turned in a handsome profit that averaged about $1,400,000 over the years from the sale of farm products, and few prisoners ever seemed to escape. But the realities of prison life in Arkansas were far removed from the comfortable...
...first hint of brutality and murder at the farms. Shortly after Governor Winthrop Rockefeller took office in 1967, he released a 67-page state-police prison report, ordered and then suppressed by former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped...