Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's personal physician. It wasn't the President who needed treatment but someone who would soon be getting just as much attention: Wei Jingsheng, China's most renowned dissident. The White House had been tipped off that Wei, who had spent most of the past 18 years in prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away to the U.S. Since he was ailing and China was granting him a "medical parole," one of his first stops after leaving prison needed to be a hospital. And since the only nonstop route from...
...around 6 p.m. on Nov. 15, Wei was sitting in his cell at the Nanpu New Life Salt Works Prison north of Beijing, when a prison official came in and ordered him to pack up immediately. He was given a down jacket and a suitcase but had to leave behind most of his books and letters. Meanwhile, security officers picked up Wei's closest relatives--his father, stepmother, elder sister, younger brother and a niece--and drove them to a People's Liberation Army border guards' hostel that was a stone's throw from Beijing International Airport...
China admitted that in 1994, more than 2,600 people were doing time for "counterrevolutionary crimes," according to the U.S. State Department--many for nonviolent protests. A teacher who tossed eggs at a portrait of Mao, for instance, is serving a life term. Prison conditions are abysmal: a former inmate has said that new arrivals at a facility in Hunan, in southeast China, are forced to suck feces from a straw...
Bailey receives an unfair trial, of course, and is stuffed away in prison. He is ironically saved from the nuclear holocaust by his own oppressors, the creators of the blast...
...like Romeo and Juliet, but it sure is weird. The attractive Seattle teacher, MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 35, who gave birth to the burly pupil's daughter this year, had been claiming mutual, consensual love. But last week she tearfully apologized in court and was sentenced to six months in prison--instead of the maximum 7 1/2--after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape. LeTourneau has 80 days left to serve, and then it's off to three years of sex-offenders' treatment. The boy, who did not want her convicted, said he doesn't consider himself...