Word: prisoners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oberlin students who have hoodwinked campus change machines with photocopied dollar bills are foolishly risking decades in prison, say Secret Service officials...
...maintain control without him, as long as his ratings stay high. But they've hit a plateau, Killian is getting edgy. To up his ratings he has Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a notorious criminal who had been blamed and framed for a massacre and had just escaped from prison, captured to become his next contestant...
...partly answer the question of where the movement will go, however. The end of the Falwell era should inspire a sweeping re-examination of the way conservative Christians separate church and state. As it happens, one vision is already being forcefully argued by Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement in decrying America's continued drift toward dangerous immorality and secularism...
Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik who was released from his nine-year prison sentence three years ago, said that most Americans laud Mikhail Gorbachev for allowing the emigration of several well-known, prominent dissidents, but few realize that his regime has barred the bulk of other Jews from emigrating...
According to Sharansky, KGB officials ridiculed the letters he received from American students and housewives during his prison terms, but these letters helped to free him. Now, he said, is the time for these supporters to again show their support for the remaining Jews in the Soviet Union...