Word: prisons
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...pornography that flourishes in most cities is also distasteful and to be discouraged. Now even if this were all true -- and a majority of Americans think it is -- does it mean that the forces of law and government should proclaim such sexual activities illegal and threaten all offenders with prison terms? More generally, does it mean that the permissiveness of the past 20 years has finally gone too far, particularly in its blatant public displays, and that the government has a moral duty to call a halt? That certainly seems to be the implication of the Supreme Court's ruling...
...Enlightenment of the 18th century, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa appointed a troop of spies known as Commissioners of Chastity to enforce her prim views. Said the irrepressible Giacomo Casanova: "They carried off to prison, at all hours of the day and from all the streets of Vienna, poor girls whom they found alone, who in most cases went out only to earn an honest living." Sodomy was long considered a capital offense, and the Marquis de Sade was sentenced to death for engaging in it. Hitler threw homosexuals into concentration camps. In recent years the resurgence of Islamic...
...cooperating with Government investigators, Levine has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of income tax evasion, securities fraud and perjury. He will be sentenced this week, and could receive up to 20 years in prison and a $610,000 fine. He is in the process of turning over $11.5 million in illegal profits to a federal court...
...major in the Israeli military-intelligence service who is now on trial for serving as a Syrian agent. The reserve officer is accused of transferring to Syria secrets of Israel's military activities in Lebanon. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison...
...prepared to send its Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, on a trip to that country to try to arrange a dialogue between the Pretoria government and black leaders and seek the release of Nelson Mandela, the most prominent figure in the longoutlawed African National Congress, who has been in prison for 24 years. In the meantime, a fourth foreign journalist, West German TV Correspondent Heinrich Buettgen, was ordered to leave the country. When the local Foreign Correspondents Association protested the government's "sinister" expulsions policy, it received an angry retort from the Deputy Information Minister, Louis Nel. The real problem...