Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret session of the Cominform in Sofia last month, Communist leaders spent an entire day discussing Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 56, Prince Primate of Hungary. The decision to arrest him had already been made; it remained to concoct just the right charges...
Jogjakarta, the Republic of Indonesia's capital in south central Java, quickly fell. Dutch paratroopers and airborne forces seized Magowo airfield, outside the capital, and invaded the city. The action was so fast that the Dutch were able to arrest the republic's top leaders, including President Soekarno, Premier Mohammed Hatta, ex-Premier Sutan Sjahrir, Foreign Minister Hadji Agus Salim, and General Sudirman, commander of the republic's 300,000 ill-armed troops. The Dutch announced that they had only three wounded, none killed...
Jacobs escaped a volley of vicious kicks only by getting a parking meter between himself and the youth. Patrolman Lawrence Brutti made the arrest a moment later...
Thirty minutes later, one of the youths returned to the shop with the tie that had started all the trouble. Stating that he had seen them get his friend, he put up no resistance when Patrolman Brutti returned to the store on a hunch and made the arrest...
...wind up the affair, Prosecutor Nogues recommended five years' imprisonment for Vergara, three years' banishment for Ibañez and fines of 50,000 pesos ($1,175) each. For the officers he asked lighter terms; for the noncoms, only two months' military arrest. At week's end President González, who knows a danger signal when he sees one, was pushing through Congress a 20% pay raise for the armed forces...