Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapons. But they were assigned to every combat outfit in the Army, and had less protection than the average combat soldier since they did not carry weapons. Seventy-seven of them were killed in action, 253 were, wounded, and 82 died in non-battle, including five who died in prison camps...
...overheard and hustled the sickly lad to court. The trial was speedy, the sentence light by Lisbon standards: 25 days in jail and 100 escudos ($4) fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...
Last week, in the stifling summer heat of a makeshift courtroom outside Belgrade, the onetime hero of Yugoslav resistance was very tired. Prison-pale and peering myopically through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best...
Such is the background to the current trials at Bad Nauheim, Germany, where Kilian, several lower ranking officers, and enlisted guards are on trial for alleged mistreatment of GI prisoners. Sergeant Judson Smith, chief non-commissioned officer at the guardhouse, received three years at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. Other enlisted men are serving prison sentences of lesser length. And last week a first lieutenant, first officer to be tried and the man alleged to have ordered the beatings, heard his sentence-admonition and a fine of $250, or approximately one month...
Last April a U.S. correspondent in Bangkok, after trying vainly for an interview with Ananda, concluded that he was more or less a prisoner of the politicians. What ever the real cause of his death, Ananda is out of prison...