Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind is my own church" set the tone for it. Today, dogma is rejected largely by the young, particularly those of us who have come of age in the 1960s. It was with awe and hope that we first heard the echoes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's bomb-rocked prison. There, the 37-year-old theologian urged man to find Christ at the "center of life" by participating in the struggles of the world. This was the supreme religious act. For most, despite their imperiled souls, this was dogma enough, and a way to manifest Paul Tillich's "ultimate...
...make up this group have maneuvered to push their own people into power, used anti-Zionism as a club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka in the press. They are finding, however, that the wily Gomulka, 63, who spent five years in prison for his anti-Stalinist stand before becoming party boss in 1956, is no pushover. Last week Gomulka managed to avert a showdown with his enemies while placing two of his own men in top positions...
...political fortunes of Spychalski, an architect by training, have waned and gained for 25 years with those of Gomulka. An underground Communist leader during World War II, he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Stalinists after Gomulka was purged in 1948. Never brought to trial, Spychalski left prison a cripple without toes, was made Defense Minister after Gomulka gained power in 1956, and has held the post since...
...organized a new Cabinet of forward-looking moderates who are unlikely to revert to the old ways. Among the members are such men as Interior Minister Josef Pavel, 59, and Defense Minister Martin Dzur, 48. Both of these new ministers were purged in the past and served stiff prison terms. The new Minister of Culture and Information, urbane, polished former Editor Miroslav Galuška, 45, is a favorite of the country's liberal writers, who were the catalysts of reform...
...rebuttal, the Greek government categorically denied that it was torturing its prisoners and backed up its case by producing Red Cross reports on the prison camps that, while critical in tone, made no mention of any evidence of torture. Thus satisfied that its innocence was established, the junta announced that henceforth it will bar the prison camps to all foreign investigators except those of the International Red Cross...