Word: prisoners
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...Operation Rescue is closing its doors. The three-year-old pro-life group won national notoriety by organizing blockades of abortion clinics around the country. Terry, convicted on misdemeanor charges of trespassing during a 1988 Atlanta-clinic protest, announced the closing last week upon his release from a Georgia prison, where he spent four months on a chain gang. The group buckled, he says, under the weight of a $50,000 lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women...
...wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and launch a campaign of sabotage. After 17 months on the run, he was caught in 1962. He was convicted in June 1964 of attempting to overthrow the government along with seven others in the Rivonia trial. His sentence: life in prison...
...renditions, Mrs. Mandela said the unfinished portrait was "the nearest likeness to today's Mandela." But she thought his face was too round, although Davis had caught the hardness in his eyes. Said she: "Years of suffering you can't take away. That expression he did not have before prison...
...what of the man behind the painting? MacLeod, who interviewed Mandela's comrades from Britain to Africa, says, "I came away impressed by how this man burdened with problems has remained very much the head of his family. Even from prison, he managed to buy and wrap Christmas presents -- a box of chocolates for his wife and earrings for his daughter...
...Moore. Reportedly Moore told a grand jury last year that she had not used drugs and was only a casual friend of Barry's. But she renewed talks with authorities after a drunk-driving arrest in Los Angeles on New Years' Day; once before, she served six months in prison for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Another explanation for her cooperation is that she feared being charged with perjury for her grand jury testimony about Barry and Charles Lewis, a convicted drug dealer. In December 1988 the Washington police were about to arrest Lewis, when Barry turned...