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Word: prison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this crucial, life-and-death time for the church, when the purification process is so desperately needed, there bursts upon the world from the prison of Poland a powerful, electrifying personality, a man who is all heart, soul, guts and steely courage, John Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...free speech too literally. First to enter the dock was former Red Guard Wei Jingsheng, 29, who last year tacked up a famous wall poster calling for "the fifth modernization - democracy." As editor of Tansuo, he published an article detailing the harsh treatment of political detainees at Qincheng prison, outside Peking. After a 5½-hr. trial, Wei was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "counter revolutionary agitation" and divulging "military secrets" to foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: From Peking to Paris | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Mordovia is the prison where Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian historian, was held until last April. Then, after Harvard invited him to join the Ukrainian Research Institute, Soviet authorities included Moroz in a deal that sent Moroz and four other dissidents to the United States in exchange for two Soviet spies...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Dissident in Limbo | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...will." If he has been repatriated by force, the canoeist faces a charge of treason, for which the penalty could be death. Last week the West German embassy in Moscow received an anonymous phone call from a Russian who claimed that Cesiunas was being held in a Soviet prison hospital, with severe head injuries, including a cracked skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: KGB Kidnaping | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...hypocrites; the cops all regard suspects as "scum." When criminals go to jail-usually on trumped-up charges-they invariably get murdered shortly after incarceration. Indeed, if the American hero of Midnight Express had come from Baltimore, there would have been no reason for him to escape the Turkish prison and return home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kangaroo Court | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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