Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Lunt spoke at length about his prison experiences. Looking fatigued and gaunt, he said conditions had been "very bad" during the early years. He was held at Havana's La Cabana prison, where scores of prisoners were shot every month. Later he was transferred to the notorious Isle of Pines, where he said a guard bayoneted him in the stomach while he was working in a rock quarry...
...minor diplomatic issue involving Cuba was resolved last week when Havana released four Americans from its prisons. For four years Fidel Castro had said that they would be freed if the U.S. released four Puerto Rican nationalists who were in prison for trying to assassinate President Truman and House leaders in the 1950s. Carter granted them clemency two weeks ago. Nonetheless, State Department officials denied that any deal had been made with Havana...
...characterless (and imaginary) European town, works as "a mere clerk in a dismal pharmacy" and plays doting father to his teen-age daughter Mirabelle. Two other women dominate his thoughts: his late wife Claire and his mother Eva, an inmate of La Violaine, the town's prison for women...
...accidentally learns that his daughter is a prostitute; catatonically, he submits to the ministrations of one of Mirabelle's schoolmates before going off to report his daughter to the police. When the women of La Violaine stage a revolt, Vost is among the volunteers who enter the prison, armed with long sticks, and try to beat the women into submission. They fail, and Vost embarks on a nightmare journey over the terrain of lust...
...secretive Revolutionary Council, Iran's chief ruling body; of a heart attack; in Tehran. Taleghani was the first religious leader to pronounce the monarchy "illegal" and the first to be arrested for doing so. He remained in Iran throughout the Pahlavi reign, spending a dozen years in prison, but also shaping the groundswell movement that brought the exiled Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power. Known for his tolerance, Taleghani served as Khomeini's mediator in disputes with the Kurds and other dissident groups. His own differences with the leader nearly forced a showdown in April when Khomeini arrested...