Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snitch. Over the past decade White -- whose rap sheet lists crimes ranging from purse snatching to kidnaping -- has testified against at least a dozen California inmates who he claimed confessed their guilt to him. With information he provided, authorities have unearthed the bodies of murder victims and prosecuted a prison gang leader for murder. In exchange, lawmen accorded him special privileges, including early release, during his frequent returns to the slammer. "Every time I come in here," White boasts, "I inform and get back...
...will not return to jail when he finishes hospital treatment for tuberculosis. But the spiritual head of the banned African National Congress will not be set free, either. He will be transferred to what the government described as "suitable, comfortable and secure" living accommodations -- possibly a house on prison grounds. By freeing Mandela in stages, Botha apparently hopes to avoid having the ailing black leader die in jail and thus become a martyr...
...computer file] that is exclusively reserved for the government of the United States..[and such access] affects the government's [operation] of its computers by means of altering...damaging...destroying...or preventing authorized use" is a felony, punishable by a maximum of a $1000 fine and a one-year prison sentence...
...Yerevan the movement to join Armenia has spawned its own leaders. Foremost among them is the shadowy Karabakh Committee, which loosely coordinates the Theater Square demonstrations. The committee, officially disbanded in March, still has eleven active members, who meet regularly despite the threat of prison sentences should the government decide to act. "We lead totally open lives," says Levon Ter-Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader...
...ever, Sakharov's first concern was human rights. He used his maiden appearance in the West to press the case of political prisoner Vazif Meylanov, a mathematician jailed after demonstrating for Sakharov's freedom. "It is my duty now, at this moment, to remember this man and many others who remain in prison," said Sakharov. Nor has Sakharov given up criticizing his country's regime. Five days before leaving Moscow for the U.S., where he is visiting relatives in Massachusetts and attending a meeting in Washington of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, he warned that...