Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed to remove the child from his divorced father's custody despite continual reports of abuse for nearly two years, repeated hospitalizations for serious injuries, and regular observations by a caseworker of suspicious bumps and lesions. Joshua's father was convicted of child abuse in 1984 and paroled from prison after less than two years. Last week, in a ruling that stunned children's rights advocates around the country, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to absolve Winnebago County of constitutional responsibility for Joshua's fate...
Havel holds numerous awards and honors for his plays, which include The Garden Party and Largo Desolato; essays The Power of the Powerless; and Letters to Olga, a collection of missives that he wrote to his wife while in prison. Havel's work reflects the struggle of citizens in a totalitarian state. Although he is both produced and published abroad, his work has been banned in Czechoslovakia since 1969 and must circulate underground...
After conferring with her husband at Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town last week, Mandela canceled a planned press conference. Three days later, Mandela reportedly agreed to remove the bodyguards from her home. But the decision left unexplained whether she had been oblivious to the misdeeds of her football team or had encouraged them. Through most of her husband's 26- year imprisonment, Winnie Mandela seemed a true heroine, undiminished by loneliness, police harassment, detention and banishment. Now, even to old friends, she is a mystery...
...authority under a 1980 law to forbid disclosure of documents that Judge Gesell concludes the jury really does have to see. The judge would then have to dismiss some or all of the dozen charges against North, which together carry a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison and $3 million in fines. At the extreme, North could walk free. Alternatively, he might escape the weightier charges of lying to Congress, obstructing an investigation and shredding Government documents and be tried on only the less dramatic charges of accepting an illegal gift and diverting to personal use $4,300 that...
...successful battle to win legal clearance to challenge the British government's ban on broadcasts by the I.R.A. and other extremist groups. His brother Dermot, 28, was sentenced in 1982 to 18 years on a terrorist charge but escaped in a mass I.R.A. breakout from Ulster's Maze Prison...