Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the government eased up on the number of visitors and the rules covering prison discussions, those who saw Mandela came away impressed, almost awed. Amazingly, he showed no sign of bitterness and was fully informed on both domestic and foreign affairs. He was a socialist, he said, not a Communist, and his goal was a nonracial, democratic South Africa. If the government would legalize the African National Congress that he once helped lead and open negotiations, the organization would call a "truce" in the armed struggle...
...friction in the Soviet leader's dealings with Western politicians, who want Moscow to improve its human rights policies. The move ensures that Sakharov, who at 65 is in delicate health, will not die in exile, a politically embarrassing prospect. Early last month Soviet Dissident Anatoli Marchenko died in prison of a brain hemorrhage following a hunger strike...
...gain such cooperation from Sakharov the physicist, Gorbachev will have to woo Sakharov the human rights activist. The courtship may already have begun. On Dec. 19, Crimean Tatar Activist Mustafa Dzhemilev was freed from a Siberian labor camp after twelve years of prison and exile. Last week Yuri Lyubimov, a prominent Soviet theatrical director who was stripped of his citizenship two years ago for criticizing cultural restrictions, received a phone call in Washington from a former colleague at Moscow's Taganka Theater encouraging him to return home. Lyubimov believes the call was officially sanctioned, and is pursuing the overture...
...sisters in the convent at Lisieux. The film portrays it as a true community, a beautiful sisterhood. For novices like Therese, every act of abasement is another wondrous rite of initiation into a high-spirited sorority of love and sacrifice. For the older nuns, the convent is not a ^ prison but an enchanted castle that surrounds them with images of their beloved. All the sisters find beauty in duty, fulfillment in filth. One nun, ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin as if it were the Eucharist. Later another nun tastes the dying Therese's tubercular...
...incarceration certainly improved him. And improved me. And also our children. In the past, I had figured that so long as I didn't do any mean things, I'd be O.K. In other words, it was a negative thing rather than something positive. But once he was in prison, it brought out a whole new ( set of values for both of us. In the past, he had concentrated on how to get to the presidency, and everything was just concentrated on that goal. For my part, I had followed the path of least resistance: O.K., if I have...