Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mikolajczyk's four-room apartment opened on the grim red walls of Warsaw's Mokotow Prison. Behind these walls in recent weeks, Poland's Soviet-style secret cops had grilled Mikolajczyk's party lieutenants in relays. Lately, "confessions" had been bringing Mikolajczyk's own arrest closer. He had said many times: "I will never leave the country." But lately he had also been saying more & more often: "I will be arrested. And when I am, they will do to me what they did to Nikola Petkoff...
Nightied Cabot Hall Radcliffe girls were startled just before one o'clock this morning by a masculine intruder poised outside the third floor ledge. Later identified after arrest by Central Square police as a Harvard student, he was held over night for drunkenness...
Strikers jammed the Zócalo under the office of District Governor Fernando Casas Alemán to protest the arrest of three union leaders, and told the Governor that "functionaries who ordered these arrests don't know the humble pot of beans." The men were released, the strikers went back to work. Bread prices stayed up, but bakers agreed to put 75% of their production in the small, 5 centavo loaf, only 25% in more expensive sizes...
...Pacific.† Tro, among other things, had accused Salabarria and his supporters of black market operations. That rankled. For the unsolved murder of one of his men a fortnight ago, Salabarria blamed Tro. It also gave him the excuse he needed. Last week, with a warrant for the arrest of Tro and two friends, Salabarria got together two carloads of men armed with Tommy guns. They surrounded a house in suburban Marianao where Tro was visiting, were soon firing round after round into walls and windows...
Jailed, Exiled, Dismissed. This week, very few of the original participants were at liberty to celebrate the coup's anniversary. Maniu was in prison, Bratianu under house detention, Petrescu under ominous attack in the Communist press. Most of the high-ranking Army officers were under arrest, in exile or dismissed from the Army...