Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular revolution. If the Senate decides that Rojas is guilty, it can deprive him of "civil rights," e.g., the right to vote, and it can remand him to the Supreme Court for trial on criminal charges. If the charges stick, Rojas may find himself behind prison bars...
...talking about United States congressmen who had protested the executions, he said, "What country are they living in? The Moon? If we delay now in Cuba, people will assault the prison and take justice into their own hands. The accounts of the past must be settled before the people can concentrate their attention on the future." He went on to repeat the arguments he had previously advanced to the effect that only those concerning whose guilt there could be no doubt were being executed now; that an extraordinary situation like a revolution demanded extraordinary measures like military tribunals, that Cuba...
...night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses and dragged 35 victims off to prison, kicking and clubbing them en route...
Society's troubles with amphetamine go back almost 20 years to a time when the most popular inhaler contained Benzedrine (Smith, Kline, & French Laboratories' trade name for one form of amphetamine). Prison wardens complained that accordion-pleated paper fillers loaded with 250 mg. of amphetamine (15 times the average daily dose a doctor would prescribe for reducing or lethargic patients) were being smuggled to convicts, who chewed them and went on violent rampages. Then S.K.F. chemists found a better decongestant, propylhexedrine (not an amphetamine or a stimulant), to put in inhalers, and changed the name to Benze-drex...
...finds himself in the vestibule outside. Hypnotically, he walks right back through the wall into his flat. He soon puts his strange talent to use in bank vaults and jewelry shops, signs himself "The Werewolf." When the Werewolf is captured by the police, he simply evaporates through the thick prison walls. But Dutilleul's powers desert him one night in mid-wall at his mistress' home, and passing Parisians take his walled-up cries for the whining of the wind...