Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence in Russia, where he was both bored and homesick, Mao and eleven other comrades founded the Chinese Communist Party. On his return from Russia Liu promptly joined, and for the next 20 years he worked as a Red labor organizer-a job that occasionally landed him in prison. In 1934, when Mao led the Red army in its famed, 6,000-mile Long March from southern Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan in northern China, Organizer Liu went underground, remained behind as a Communist agent in Kuomintang territory...
...James King in an attempt to make them confess to dealings with Mrs. Gall. Air Force Colonel Robert N. Wilkinson, the first U.S. officer to see the sergeants after their arrest, told the court he had not been permitted to talk to them until they had been in prison about 30 hours. When he did, "King was shaking nervously, could hardly speak, and had difficulty standing up . . . He had a secretion at the corner of his mouth which appeared to be dried blood." McCuistion, testified Wilkinson, was in worse shape: "He was crying and weeping and saying, 'Colonel, they...
...federal judges. Twelve of the government's 60 assistant prosecutors are women. The chief of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Maria Cristina Salmoran de Tamayo, 36, has about 150 men working under her-including her own husband. A woman, Maria Lavalle Urbina, runs the federal prison and parole board; Francisca Dolores Valdes de Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over 1,000 chemists. At the National University, women studying...
...sequel last week. Daniel DiOrio, 50, president of Philadelphia's Universal Seafood Co., offered no defense when charged in U.S. District Court with having used the sodium nitrite on fish with intent to mislead and defraud. Judge Thomas C. Egan sentenced him to a month in prison, with three years on probation, fined him $2,500. Said the judge: "This caused the unfortunate and almost vicious death of a three-year-old boy and rendered his family seriously ill. The public must be protected...
...blazes down, one month it is bearable. Of 600 officers and men of H.M.S. Conqueror, stationed at the island in the early 19th century, more than 100 died in an 18-month period of hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon had unwittingly forecast his fate: "It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous...