Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Accused Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah apparently has many friends in low places. Minutes after he was driven under heavy guard away from Paris police headquarters to the city's Sante prison, four other suspected terrorists were brought in. They arrived separately, at 15-minute intervals, crouched inside identical blue police vans with wire-mesh windows and police-car escorts. The four are reportedly acquainted with Abdallah, and their group is believed to have supplied him with weapons...
...Golfer Craig Stadler came to own a $37,000 pair of trousers has nothing to do with a paroled bank robber who served 4 1/2 years in federal prison. Stadler's startling disqualification of two weeks ago is a complicated parable about the relative weight of rules. But it helps to view the affair from the vantage point of Rick Meissner, late of the golf circuit, who in lieu of a more traditional backer knocked off 19 savings and loans as he toured...
...some 140 political prisoners pardoned last month by Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the best known was Mathematician Iosif Begun, a 54-year-old refusenik. He was freed after serving 3 1/2 years of a seven-year term for anti-Soviet activity that consisted mainly of teaching Hebrew and campaigning for Jewish cultural rights. After being reunited with his family and friends on a Moscow train platform last week, Begun relaxed in his apartment and spoke with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson of how he passed his time in prison. A compact man with cheerful blue eyes...
...guard bangs on iron doors, rousing Begun and some 25 others in the prison's political wing. They must rise or risk punishment...
...cell measuring about 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide. It contained two narrow wooden cots and an open toilet. At one end was a small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...