Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coop authorities generally do not inform Cambridge police about students from Harvard, Radcliffe, or M.I.T. caught shop-lifting. "These students receive preferential treatment from the Coop," Watson said. "The Coop feels that Harvard students are not criminals and we agree. They do not deserve prison sentences. Most of them do not understand the seriousness of the stealing...
Certain PBH committees, however, faced with an inability to act effectively under the limitations of the institution in which they work, are seeking to act outside of that institution. Neilther the Lyman Reform School Committee nor the Prisons Committee have the power to push for basic structural changes. Their programs can continue only so long as they remain within the regulations set by the administration of the reform school or prison. But both of these programs are working outside of their institutions to establish "halfway houses," where students released from reform school and prisoners on parole can live for about...
Politically also, Mobutu seems to have consolidated his position. Many of his political enemies are either in prison or in exile, including ex-Premier Moise Tshombe, who was kidnaped last June and remains in an Algerian jail. (Algeria has so far refused Mobutu's request for Tshombe's extradition to the Congo, where he is under a death sentence.) The flight of the 123 white and 950 black Katangese mercenaries, under pressure from Mobutu's army, has for now restored the prestige of his army officers, who might otherwise have been tempted to depose...
...contemporary fame of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German Protestant theologian who was executed in 1945 for taking part in the plots against Hitler, rests primarily on the Letters and Papers from Prison he wrote to friends and family. In these cryptic messages, most of them smuggled out of his cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, Bonhoeffer outlined a new kind of secular theology for a "world come of age" that has become the axiomatic premise for post-Christian thought. Last week a new cache of Bonhoeffer letters came to light-revealed by the woman to whom...
...haired Maria von Wedemeyer-Weller, 43, who came to the U.S. in 1948 on a graduate fellowship in mathematics at Bryn Mawr, and now lives near Boston, where she works as a computer systems analyst. In all, she received more than 40 letters from Bonhoeffer while he was in prison; the 38 she was able to keep when she fled East Germany during the Russian invasion have been given to Harvard's Houghton Library, with the stipulation that they not be published without her permission during her lifetime. In an article about Bonhoeffer in the current issue...