Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicaraguan officials have said Hasenfus faces up to 30 years in prison, although no charges have been filed...
...plotline is so secondary to the action that Jarmusch doesn't even bother to explain how the threesome escapes from their swamp-bound prison. The setting is just a convenient way for putting three strange people in the same room for a long time, just as Jarmusch did in his first film, Stranger than Paradise. In Paradise, the long pauses and spaced-out banality of the dialogue was so odd that it quickly became funny, similar to what might happen while watching 200 laundry detergent commercials in a row. Jarmusch dishes out more of the same in Law, only with...
Meanwhile, Daniloff continued his daily routine of jogging five miles along the Moscow River embankment. The strain of detention, though in the comfortable surroundings of the U.S. embassy, where he has been staying since his release from Lefortovo Prison more than two weeks ago, has taken its toll: a doctor at the embassy is worried about the correspondent's continued high blood pressure. Despite the hopes for a settlement, Ronald Reagan has stood firm in insisting that Daniloff is an "innocent hostage who should be released." As long as he remained in the Soviet Union, a summit would be held...
...sharp rhetoric last week reflected French indignation over the brutal wave of terrorist bombings in Paris that have left nine dead and 163 wounded since Sept. 8. The declared aim of the bombings, which have been claimed by the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.), is to force the release from prison of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, a pro-Palestinian Marxist with roots in Lebanon's Maronite Christian community. The leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (F.A.R.L.), a group that police say may be the same as the C.S.P.P.A., Abdallah is serving a four...
...there was some relief as police arrested seven French militants and four Lebanese for questioning. But no one dared predict that the nightmare was over. Indeed, a C.S.P.P.A. communique warned that the "fire will spread" if its demands were not met. Abdallah, meanwhile, was transferred from Fleury- Merogis prison outside Paris to La Sante prison in the capital for added security...