Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While radios blared the descriptions of the fugitives, thousands of South African police manned roadblocks, searched white homes and black townships all over the country. Their elusive quarry, honored by the biggest reward ($5,600) ever posted in South Africa: four prisoners who had staged a 1 a.m. walk-away from Johannesburg's central police headquarters. The leader of the fugitives was Arthur Goldreich, at 33 one of the country's most successful artists, and as of last week one of its more successful escape artists as well...
Goldreich was jailed under a recent law by which police can hold a suspect for 90 days without charge. (When the 90-day term comes to an end, some prisoners are being dutifully released, allowed to walk 100 yards, then rearrested for another three-month stretch.) A month after his arrest, Goldreich apparently got hold of cell-block keys, possibly with inside help, and freed three fellow prisoners-two anti-apartheid Asians, and a Jewish lawyer, Harold Wolpe, longtime defender of imprisoned leftists...
...Concha Córdoba, priests have led peasant pro tests, organized community stores to sell low-cost food to the poor, set up a radio network that beams reading les sons and farming instructions to remote villages. In Mexico (where since 1926 it has been illegal for priests to walk around in cassocks) and in Venezuela, churchmen have sponsored organiza tions of idealistic volunteers who, in Peace Corps fashion, seek to help the poor in slums and backlands...
...opponents. In P.J.'s torture chambers, prisoners were slashed with razors, burned with cigarettes, forced to sit for hours on blocks of ice. Some prisoners were force-fed harsh laxatives, and then, in a chamber of horrors awash with blood, excrement and vomit, they were forced to walk naked around a razor-sharp wheel...
...hand; another 2,200 (some of the titles come in sets) must be donated. Donors will get credit on the bookplate, and need not worry that their gifts will vanish. "This library belongs to the people of the U.S.," says Babb. "These aren't books a President can walk off with when he leaves the White House...