Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following a formal recommendation made by Marini last month. Three of the Turkish defendants were acquitted on the same technicality. But one of them, Omer Bagci, was convicted of smuggling into Italy the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting and was sentenced to three years in prison. Agca was also found guilty as charged and given an additional year in jail...
...bill: the NRA mandatory sentencing provision "is unnecessary and, as drafted, it weakens and confuses current law." The mandatory sentencing aspects of the bill are far more effective as propaganda than as law enforcement; in 1985, President Reagan signed into law a bill mandating a 5-year prison term for those who possess firearms while committing a crime...
...Under the Sabotage Act, the Terrorism Act, the Internal Security Act, the Riotous Assemblies Act, and the Unlawful Organizations Act, the government can arrest whom it wishes and keep them in prison incommunicado, denying all access by lawyers, family, and friends for as long as deemed necessary..." (Pogrund, "The Anatomy of White Power," Atlantic, October...
...When I was in prison, I never thought I would see the triumph of the revolution," Ortega recalls. "All I thought about was the fight against Somoza and how to get out of prison." It is common wisdom that the Sandinistas have had difficulty getting used to governing rather than opposing. Says Ortega: "I never thought about being President of Nicaragua." But now he is, and in the hard months ahead, as the U.S. vacillates on the question of contra aid and the Nicaraguan economy sputters, Ortega faces tough tests not as a revolutionary but as a politician...
...transvestite famous for offering sexual services to prison inmates. A woman who has risked madness, and at least temporarily succumbed to it, by volunteering to abstain from TV for a month. A clairvoyant, a mafioso, a crusader on a hunger strike until people stop hunting birds, a troupe of midgets who make up the world's smallest Spanish-dance ensemble...