Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good chance we'll find mummies, and they may tell us whether there were epidemics that swept through the area." He would also like to understand why anybody would have lived in such a godforsaken area. Indeed, Gran Pajaten seems more like a place to put a prison than a great city...
...ministry's conference hall, with its marble columns and rostrum, was overflowing. Mounting the rostrum, obviously pained and embarrassed, Malik bleated, "Comrades, I have never before revealed state secrets." Everyone howled with laughter. In another time he would have ended up in prison or worse; now he received only a strogach (severe reprimand...
...Baader-Meinhof gang of the 1970s, smashed windows of six banks and attempted a fire-bombing of an electronics company warehouse in Bremen. It was the 30th such strike by the R.A.F. since early December, when 30 imprisoned members of the terrorist group began a hunger strike for better prison conditions...
Blaike, who was indicted on a count of forgery and three related charges in connection with Bacon's insurance policy, is serving a life sentence in state prison on charges that he fatally shot another...
...Chris Boyce escaped from Lompoc federal prison and lived on the lam, as a bank robber and fisherman, for 19 months before his capture. To many of those he met then, he is still a friend, and maybe a hero. That story could make for a sequel--The Falcon Strikes Back, perhaps?--superior to the original movie. The early careers of Chris and Daulton prove that truth is stranger, and more thrilling, than docu-drama...