Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 70 localities, demonstrators marched through the streets, staged sit-down strikes, even overturned a locomotive and tore up tracks on the main line from Warsaw to the west. The most violent outbreak occurred in Radom, a factory town of 180,000 in central Poland, where at least 75 policemen as well as hundreds of workers were injured and the Communist Party headquarters was set afire...
...Harrises' legal problems do not end with this case. They still must stand trial in Oakland on a federal charge: taking part in the February 1974 kidnaping of Patty, the violent event that began the heiress's involvement with the tiny sect of S.L.A. terrorists. As for Patty, she is still undergoing psychiatric testing in San Diego while awaiting sentencing for bank robbery. She also remains under indictment on the same charges brought against the Harrises as a result of the incident at Mel's Sporting Goods Store...
...California records-a jury in San Rafael finally made up its mind about the San Quentin Six, a group of convicts accused of having taken part in a spectacular, bloody and unsuccessful escape attempt on Aug. 21, 1971. Three were convicted, three acquitted. The trial followed a series of violent events centering on George Jackson, a black prisoner and social revolutionary whose bitter writings about life behind bars became a popular book (Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson...
...judges interpret the decree's terms. The amnesty is considerably broader than a limited pardon granted by Juan Carlos last December, when more than 600 political prisoners and thousands of common criminals were set free (although their convictions remain on the record). By specifically excluding people convicted of violent crimes, the amnesty fails to benefit some 200 prisoners, most of them Basques, who were jailed under last year's decree law against terrorism, which led to the execution of five left-wing guerrillas in September. Nonetheless, most opposition leaders chose to emphasize the amnesty's positive aspects...
...perhaps in himself. A death-beyond-death-an annihilation not only of the body by war but of the personality by peace. "The truth of this world is to die," says Bardamu. But he wrestles with his black angel so fiercely that the result is art -showing that violent, capering, irresistible energy that the 20th century accepts as an enormous attachment to life...