Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...
...name of democracy is finally getting his just desserts. A federal court jury found North guilty on three of the 12 counts against him, including aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress, accepting an illegal gratuity and destroying and falsifying government documents. He faces up to 10 years in prison and $750,000 in fines...
...nerves make the leaders snappish as they scurry about, pausing in little clots of prayer, then bustling to their tasks. Their language is semimilitary, befitting such constant readers of the Book of Exodus. These are churchgoing, middle-class couples, uneasy in the shabby clothes they have put on for prison service later in the day. Not the demonstrators of civil rights or antiwar protests, these are a new breed: "Bible Christians" increasingly determined to restore their country...
...Government itself has on occasion declined to extradite some suspected terrorists. In 1981 it refused to hand over Desmond Mackin, an I.R.A. member, to Britain, and it is now reviewing the case of I.R.A. fighter Joseph Doherty, an escapee from a Belfast prison...
...turncoat priest for swearing allegiance to the revolutionary state, which repudiated the power of the Pope. Last June, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, head of the French church, officially endorsed a campaign to sanctify 181 priests and three bishops who were murdered by a Paris mob in the Carmes prison in 1792. "France is like a family that has had an internal dispute," Lustiger said. "If we don't talk about the bad things that happened, we won't have a real reconciliation." Right-wing Catholics will converge on Paris for an August anti-bicentennial rally. Says Francois Triomphe, founder...