Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papandreou, 48, who held U.S. citizenship from 1944 to 1964, was released from an Athens prison by the junta's Christmas Eve amnesty. Last week he flew to Paris, where he denounced the present regime as "repressive and dictatorial," warned it to step aside or face a civil war, and called for the establishment of a nonaligned "progressive" government in Greece...
Claustrophobia. Even behind bars, Aunay managed to put his talents to profitable use. Put away in 1962 for a brief term in Paris' Fresnes Prison, he wangled a job in the prison purchasing office, and whiled away his sentence forging $120,000 worth of payment orders for goods the prison never received. During a three-year term for armed robbery in Nice, he suffered a convenient heart attack and wound up living it up in the prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie...
...consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only a few weeks' supply but take them anyway, in the mistaken belief than an ounce of prevention is better than...
...dents, most of whom have pleaded not guilty, face the double jeopardy of both campus and county discipline. They will be tried before student-run courts, and those charged with selling drugs face suspension from class. The maximum criminal penalty is far more severe: up to seven years in prison...
Shatterly said that if the Army chose to induct him immediately, despite his refusal to sign the oath, he would probably opt for either going to prison or leaving the country...