Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black South Africans. But they are still powerful, dramatic episodes; the audience is forced to come to terms once again with what systematically imposed injustice feels like. So it is not surprising that it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between the episodes that take place in prison and those that are on the outside. One cannot call the police; the police are the people who impose the injustice...
...laws. After Carr was released on $100,000 bail, authorities believe, he fled to Bermuda or the Cayman islands. An FBI fingerprint check revealed that "James Carr" was really one Alan Abrahams, an escaped convict with a 22-year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much as $75 million over the past 18 months. Investigators found that one escrow account in a Boston bank supposed to contain $3.6 million to safeguard clients...
...suspects in felony cases often relax on the street for a year or more and eventually extract a light, plea-bargained sentence from beleaguered prosecutors. But only 61 days after the Boston assault, the intruder had been tried, convicted of five felonies and sent off to the maximum-security prison at Walpole, Mass., for ten to 20 years...
...them soaring 284 ft. into the air, have been built for the 90-and 70-meter ski jumps. Construction also has started on a complex to house 1,800 athletes. Once the Games are over, the athletes' village will be converted into a minimum-security federal prison that should provide jobs for some 200 local residents. "Every facility here will have a viable afteruse," says MacKenzie in an obvious reference to the $80 million athletes' housing that has stood empty since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Like many an Olympic planner before him, MacKenzie promises...
...Besides his wife Joan and brood of three, Kennedy brought along three sisters, a brother-in-law, R.F.K.'s son Michael and J.F.K.'s daughter Caroline. The group, shooting photographs for TIME as they traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed by the motivation, the drive, the organization...