Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Louis Chavel is one of 30 Frenchmen being held in a small prison block by the occupying German army. Chavel, a lawyer before the war, and his fellow detainees know exactly why their captors provide them food and shelter: the involuntary guests are hostages, meant to discourage local Resistance violence against the Nazis. This deterrent, of course, does not work. Two Germans are killed, and the order comes down from the prison commander: one out of every ten prisoners is to be executed at sunrise. The men themselves must choose the victims. Lots are drawn, and Chavel finds himself...
...multistate task force is currently trying to unravel the complicated scheme. As for Rogers, two weeks ago, he entered California's Lompoc prison camp to begin serving a six-month sentence on a separate charge of bankruptcy fraud...
...pleaded guilty and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison. But Robert and Lois Bentz, the first couple to be tried, were acquitted last September. Under brutal cross-examination, some of the prosecution's young witnesses, including the Bentzes' own sons, 10 and 6, recanted or told confusing stories. One neighbor's eleven-year-old boy, who had claimed he had had oral sex with Robert Bentz, testified that his story...
...growing antiapartheid movement, Zindzi Mandela, 25, at the side of Johannesburg's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, stood silently for a moment in Soweto's Jabulani Stadium. Then she began to read to the 9,000 people gathered before her a message prepared by her father, Nelson Mandela, in his prison cell. "I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free," Mandela, South Africa's best-known black activist, said in his statement. "Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated...
After receiving Mandela's rejection last week, Botha closed the door on the issue. "My government's and my attitude on this matter flows on the one hand from a concern for men who have spent a long time in prison," he said. "On the other hand, we cannot order their release if they remain committed to violence, sabotage and terrorism." Critics questioned Botha's motives, suggesting that he had acted to get into the open the issue of the A.N.C.'s advocacy of violent change. Asked the Rand Daily Mail: "Was it a ploy, couched in such terms that...