Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressional immunity would force a witness to testify or face prison. That testimony could not be used against the witness in a criminal case, but Walsh could build a case independently...
...most of the ridiculous things that happen in this play. He pushes the drunken Jonny into the arms of Mare, who seduces him. Guilt-stricken and distraught, Jonny tries to commit suicide in Cider's presence, but accidentally shoots Cathy's roommate dead and is subsequently sent to prison...
...prison/freedom imagery runs throughout the play, with Cider finding in violence freedom from what he calls "the prison" of alcohol, and Mare (and later Cathy) finding in prostitution freedom from economics imprisonment...
...refugees, who they believe are more in fashion, and wish they had Russian goods to sell. But in the most poignant scene they feel compelled to telephone someone, anyone, back home, just to ask how things are. After realizing that everyone they can think of has emigrated, gone to prison, committed suicide, become a collaborator or retreated into paranoid fear of the state police, the wife sadly dials the number for the correct time -- in Warsaw...
Though the prospect disturbs some officials, Gorbachev and Reagan seem determined to make a disarmament deal. -- A TIME exclusive: Dissident Andrei Sakharov' s speeches at a Moscow peace forum. -- An American spying for Israel is sentenced to life in prison. -- Student radicals form the center of opposition to President Chun in South Korea...