Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of arrests grows weekly: last week, besides collaring Balcioglu, police stood silently by at Istanbul's airport when Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalists and editor-publisher of the daily Vatan (Nation), arrived from a trip to Pakistan to put his affairs in order before entering prison for his third conviction in as many years...
...reprinting part of a story by U.S. Newspaper Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers), who, after a 1958 visit to Turkey, called the Premier a poor administrator and a conceited man. Tune Yalman, subeditor of Vatan and son of its publisher, was sentenced to prison for writing that the "government is uncultural...
...from bringing Turkish newsmen into line, Adnan Menderes has only made them more circumspect. Above all else the Turks have spirit, and the Turkish press has responded to its travail with courage. When Kim's Balcioglu went off to prison, his magazine, faced with a month's suspension and a fine, merely went out of business as Kim and back into business as Mim (Mark). Stoically accepting the laws as occupational hazards, the responsible press goes right on practicing the journalist's right to print the truth, even when it hurts as much as it does...
Cultural Exchange. In Memphis, prison officials at Shelby County Penal Farm grew suspicious of mountains of mail coming to the prison, discovered that some of the inmates were ordering their free bonuses from various book and record clubs and selling them to other prisoners...
...have asked that he bring Miss Liechtenstein to the United States to spruce up the scenery. "Where," asks the noble baron, "do we find a pretty girl here? We are a country of peasants. If I held a beauty contest, the Chief of Government would send me straight to prison...