Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throwing the blame for his own plots on others and magically convincing those around him to do what he asks. By the age of 24, Sobhraj is a man disowned by both father and nation, befriended only by a lone Frenchman named Felix, who annoyingly returns to save the prison-bound Charles time and time again. This is not a nice young man. "You should have let him stay in prison," Charles' father warns the young Frenchman. "He begged you and you believed him and took pity on him. And now the result of your mercy will be the blood...
...Special Advisor on Youth Affairs. His office, hidden in the dank basement of the White House, becomes the resting place for large sums of illicit Watergate pay-off money, and when the break-in and cover-up arrests are made, he is duly escorted to a minimum-security prison in Georgia--undergoing the pains of prison minus the Watergate infamy...
Rosa's father is one of those heroes and Burger's Daughter centers on Rosa's struggle with the demands of her father's legacy. Lionel Burger was a Communist revered for his devotion to the revolutionary cause and his humanity to all races. After he dies in prison, Rosa is expected by both her father's compatriot and by the South Africa police--who have kept her under surveillance since childhood--to carry on his work. Yet Rosa stays aloof from the underground, flinching at his friends' silent demands, stupefying the police and shaming herself...
...always exist for Rosa. Since childhood, she has routinely subordinated her life to what she calls the Future--the utopia of a South Africa without apartheid or capitalism. Her parents ask her for sacrifices as calmly as one would ask for directions. Rosa fakes a romance with a political prisoner to smuggle messages, hides excruciating cramps from her first period to bring her mother a quilt in prison, watches her parents and her brother die stoically...
...most riveting interview was filmed from within a Wisconsin State Correctional Institution. The life of Karl Armstrong runs like a dark thread through The War at Home. Now serving a 23 year prison term, Armstrong was convicted of murder in connection with the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970. He has been called "the bitter fruit of a bitter season." But his story means far more; Karl Armstrong symbolizes the progression of the anti-war movement from leaflets to sit-ins to dynamite. Clubbed at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, he vowed never...