Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...only an ambitious young ras (marshal) named Tafari in the eastern province of Harar when he teamed up with a female cousin in a plot that toppled the playboy Emperor Lij Yasu. Ras Tafari pursued the fugitive Lij Yasu for five years, caught him, threw him in prison and kept him bound in golden chains for 14 years until he died in 1935. Though his cousin became the Empress Zauditu, Ras Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death in 1930, he mounted the throne (with typical flamboyance, he had five pet lions chained...
...TRIAL BEGINS, by Abram Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other the disillusioned idealists who wonder whatever happened to their dream...
...newsmen: "I say to all of you that I am fully convinced of my innocence." A few moments earlier, an all-white jury had reported itself as totally unconvinced of Jack's innocence. Hulan Jack, borough president of Manhattan for seven years, faced a possible three years in prison, $1,500 in fines-and the end of a remarkable political career...
Part Two describes the reign of terror imposed on Palestine by the ultranationalist cults of violence (Irgun Zvai Leumi, Stern Gang), and culminates in a film version of the famous mass breakout of Acre prison that will be studied for years as a master's thesis on the cinema of escape...
...Geer, 89, Netherlands ex-Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a one-year suspended prison sentence for high treason in 1947; in Soest...