Word: prisoners
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...legal and social credentials, of being a Communist. Later Chambers, a self-admitted former Communist spy, added that Hiss had passed State Department documents to the Communist underground in the 1930s. Hiss vigorously denied the accusations, but after two trials on perjury charges he was convicted and sent to prison. Freed after some 44 months in Lewisburg federal prison, Hiss continued to plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right for the crime of being a liberal Democrat, his case a disturbing prelude to McCarthyism. To others, the facts...
ALGER HISS has always been something of a mystery. His own book on the case, In the Court of Public Opinion, written after his prison term, is a dry, legal brief attempting to prove how Chambers had practiced "forgery by typewriter," but reveals little of the feelings and emotions expected of a man when he is forced to defend his character and honor in an increasingly hostile arena. The reviewers panned the book and the public didn...
...stunning clampdown six weeks ago, the government imprisoned at least 50 people for supporting a petition to reconsider the forced exile of the popular East German balladeer Wolf Biermann. Physicist Robert Havemann, who was in a Nazi prison with Honecker, has been under house arrest since late last year for criticizing the regime. A host of dissident artists, writers and students have been arrested or beaten up by goons hired by the security police. Following the Soviet style, the police have lately taken to putting dissidents into insane asylums. Last week Honecker called for a closer connection between the Soviet...
...become the principal supplier to U.S. users of marijuana and heroin. López Portillo has ordered his army to destroy the crops (see box). The crackdown has also filled some Mexican jails with U.S. citizens who were caught with drugs in their possession; about 590 are currently serving prison terms. Sensitive to complaints about jail conditions, the Mexican government has agreed with the U.S. to exchange prisoners. The Mexican legislature has already ratified the agreement, and it now awaits action in Washington...
...week trial, in which lawyers debated the aesthetic qualities of pinup photos, medical and literary experts lectured the jury on the fine points of bestiality and oral sex, and Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) quietly took notes for his next novel. Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years in prison and fined $11,000. His crimes: the misdemeanor of pandering obscenity and the felony of "engaging in organized crime." The latter offense, established by a little-used 1974 Ohio statute, includes any illegal act in which five or more people participate. Though Flynt's magazine is edited 105 miles...