Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrest in Milan last month of Corrado Alunni, 30, a leading member of the Red Brigades. The police complained that the wide press coverage given to Alunni's capture had interfered with a similar dragnet. Among those arrested last week were Antonio Savino, 29, who escaped from prison last year and is accused of murdering a district attorney in Genoa; Paolo Sivieri, 24, found with evidence linking him to the kneecapping of an Alfa Romeo executive in Milan the day before his arrest; and Bianca Sivieri, 29, Paolo's sister, an elementary schoolteacher who lived with Savino...
...American artists wanted to locate their discourse beyond events, in a field not bound by historical time, that went back to preliterate, "primitive" tribal antiquity. The notion of ritual occupied the same place in their work that the idea of the "marvelous" did in French surrealism. Totem, cave, prison, sentinel, medium, personage, priest: such were the recurrent images...
...down to insisting on speedy and certain punishment-that is psychologically sound and socially just to both offender and victim. For truly dangerous and vile criminals, let the punishment be prison, never capital punishment. Let's assign other offenders to labor and service to the community. This kind of loss of liberty and leisure is punishment; yet the offender would be making some kind of social retribution. Please, let's not build any more jails...
...Emperors in the tenth century, various Roman noble families, especially the Crescentii, opposed imperial-backed candidates for the papacy with their own candidates, with disastrous results. Benedict V was deposed by the Emperor in 964 after a month. Benedict VI, the Emperor's papal candidate, was thrown into prison in 974 by the Crescentii. Then the family set up an antiPope, Boniface VII, who had Benedict strangled in prison...
SATURDAY. Begin wants to go to Washington to hear Leonard Bernstein conduct the Israel Philharmonic. Carter doesn't want him to go. Begin jocularly tells Brzezinski that Camp David is a "deluxe concentration camp." He recalls he has a friend who tunneled out of a British prison camp after six tries. Says he: "If we don't finish soon, I'll call my friend. He'll start working immediately...