Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year of fraud and conspiracy for leaking the contents of his articles before their publication to two New York stockbrokers, who traded on the information and earned nearly $700,000 in illegal profits. The reporter, who received $30,000 of that money, was sentenced to 18 months in prison...
After last week's bombings, any prospects that Abdallah might get out of prison soon dimmed sharply. French public opinion is strongly behind Chirac's call for a war on terrorism. Meanwhile, Paris was bracing for more attacks. After the commuter-train bomb was found, an additional 800 national riot police were assigned to the capital, bringing to 3,300 the number of extra policemen stationed there since February. Reminding the public that police reinforcements alone were not enough to stop the terrorists, Interior Minister Pasqua called on the entire population to "transform themselves into a vast host of vigilant...
...form the basis for the Senate's version of a bill, was touted by the White House as containing $2.5 billion for the drug war. In fact, it would probably authorize only $250 million in new spending and it does not contain grants to local governments for programs, like prison construction, that made the House bill so politically popular...
...three-day growth of beard and was still wearing the rumpled tan trousers he had on when arrested 13 days earlier. But Nicholas Daniloff was < ebullient, witty and still possessed of his reporter's instinct for summarizing a story. As the Cadillac carrying him from Moscow's Lefortovo Prison on Friday night stopped before cheering reporters gathered nearby, Daniloff, 51, popped out, threw his arms into the air and whooped with joy. Nonetheless he quickly observed, "I am not a free man today." Later, as he and his wife Ruth took up temporary residence at the U.S. embassy, Daniloff explained...
Benazir Bhutto, 33, was back at her Karachi home last week after 25 days in prison. In an interview with TIME, the charismatic leader of the opposition to Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq sounded more bitter and less certain than when she was firing up huge crowds with calls for national elections. But she was still defiant, blaming the government for the fact that 40 people have been killed in recent disturbances. "This regime is prepared to shoot at people quite mercilessly," she said. Nonetheless, Bhutto appeared shaken by her imprisonment, and by the failure of the millions...