Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disaster, the wound, the mistake, the wrongdoing turned on the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32, an American naval intelligence analyst, who was given a sentence of life imprisonment last week for spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. Pollard's wife Anne, 26, was condemned to prison for five years. In Israel this final denouement of the Pollard affair precipitated a painful self-examination of intelligence operations as well as worries about the future of the special relationship between Israel...
...took 45 minutes for the shirt-sleeved foreman just to read the 59-page list of verdicts. The most infamous defendant was Gaetano ("the Uncle") Badalamenti, 63, former chief of the Sicilian Mafia, who faces up to 30 years in prison, and Salvatore ("the Baker") Catalano, 46, a Queens bakery owner who prosecutors say is a powerful capo in the Bonanno family. He could get life imprisonment. Fifteen other defendants were found guilty of conspiracy. Badalamenti's son Vito was found innocent of his only charge of conspiracy, $ and another defendant was convicted of federal currency violations. To U.S. Attorney...
...power. Demonstrations frequently erupted throughout the 1960s and '70s. A student uprising claimed more than 100 lives in 1980 in the city of Kwangju. More recently, some 1,500 protesters were arrested during last October's unrest at Konkuk University. Many were sentenced to up to seven years in prison...
...convincing. The frustration and psychological suffering that apartheid imposes on all elements of life are made crushingly vivid, and the emotional impact of the unrestrained, passionate voice is compelling. Through this nightmare there remains a glimmer of hope in the freedom songs of the political prisoners, "a single powerful sound rolling and thundering, shaking the very foundations of the prison walls." It is not a practical agenda but only a vision of a possible future. Technically, it does not mesh well with the generally hopeless tone. But emotionally, it is the underlying credo of the entire novel: a new world...
...another aspect of [Harvard] trying tolook reasonable while eliminating protests," saidprotestor Mitchell A. Orenstein '89. "They are notsending us to prison but instead they are tryingto mire protest in discussion...