Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties. At the same time, the whole country anxiously awaited the opening of the Aspida trial, in which 28 officers were charged with high treason. The raucous proceedings, which began last November and lasted for four months in an Athens court room, finally resulted in March in conviction and prison sentences for 15 of the defendants. The royalists hoped to embarrass the Papandreous even further, but Son Andreas could not be brought to trial because he enjoyed immunity from prosecution as a member of Parliament...
...bridge with swastika flags for the Fuhrer's first visit, but Adenauer had them torn down before Hitler arrived and refused to greet him. That abruptly ended his career as mayor, and he was classified as "politically unreliable." He spent the next twelve years alternately in prison or reading and tending his roses in the hillside villa he built at RhÖndorf. There, near war's end, he was nearly hit by an American shell as he watched the advancing U.S. Army cross the Rhine...
Adversity only seems to make stouter the hearts of President Tito's critics in Communist Yugoslavia. Tito's most stubborn foe, Milovan Djilas, 56, who has been freed after a total of almost nine years in prison, vows to go on writing. "If I cannot speak," he says, "what good is it to be out of prison?" The editors of the Yugoslav magazine Praxis, which stopped publishing eight months ago when Tito angrily denounced its cries for reform, have just come out with a new issue that is no less defiant than before. About the least penitent...
...executive mansion in Atlanta, and everybody was having a real fine howdy when suddenly a Negro lady whispered to Mrs. Maddox: "These four men here are convicts-and one of them is my son." Indeed, the next four guests in the receiving line had just escaped from a prison work camp in Wilkinson County, and they had a lot more to say than just hello. After he'd uncricked his neck from the double take, Maddox led them to an office to hear about the camp where, they said, guards amused themselves by threatening to shoot the prisoners...
...further controversy, however. In the midst of construction, chemicals that had entered the country duty-free for use in fertilizer making were sold to a saccharin-processing firm at a $40,000 profit. As a result, Lee's son, Chang Hee Lee, was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling; he is appealing...