Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he would go through with the plan to stage a peaceful demonstration to demand the release of Black Politician Nelson Mandela, he was arrested under a law that permits the authorities to hold him indefinitely. Mandela, a principal leader of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), has been in prison for more than 20 years. In a further crackdown, the government outlawed the country's largest organization of black secondary school pupils, the Congress of South African Students. The group is an affiliate of the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.), the multiracial antiapartheid organization that has been at the center...
...seen before. Yet the march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race), was arrested at a roadblock near his home outside Cape Town and was flown to a prison in Pretoria...
Before dawn on Wednesday, the day of the scheduled march, police and military armored vehicles moved into position. They surrounded Athlone stadium, where the marchers were supposed to assemble, as well as the nearby black townships of Guguletu and Nyanga, and they blocked access to Pollsmoor prison, where Mandela is currently held. The march never took place, but there were abortive attempts at demonstrations in several places, as well as hit-and-run battles with police and widespread rioting in the townships. Several thousand marchers, led by clergymen, headed down Kromboom Road toward the prison. The police charged the procession...
...only major union boss who supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland. Presser's uncle Allen Friedman went to federal prison for allegedly receiving such illegal payments. Federal District Court Judge Sam Bell granted Friedman a new trial last week on the grounds that U.S. prosecutors failed to disclose Presser's role in the case as an FBI informant. Bell also ordered an investigation of whether FBI and Justice Department officials violated...
...democracy. Then she insisted on visiting the families of two party activists hanged earlier this year after being convicted of murdering a pro-Zia politician. Before Bhutto could meet with them, the President decided he had had enough and ordered the police to turn her home into a prison...