Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks since Associated Press Reporter William Oatis was jailed by Czechoslovakia's Communist rulers on a trumped-up charge of espionage, the U.S. has contented itself with a few murmurs of protest through diplomatic channels. Last week Harry Truman got his first chance since the Oatis arrest to meet a ranking official of the Czech government face to face. Vladimir Prochazka, recently appointed Czech ambassador, arrived at the White House to present his credentials...
...year out of Harvard, later became secretary of the American Council and (at the same time that he was organizing the Commie-front American Peace Mobilization) an I.P.R. trustee. When Field was called before the Senate committee, he wryly listed his occupation as "prisoner" because he was under arrest for contempt of court (in the bail-jumping case of the four top U.S. Communist leaders-TIME, July 16). He bantered affably with Pat McCarran and refused, on the ground of possible selfincrimination, to say whether he was a Communist or had written for Communist publications. Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers took...
...life. To prove his youth, Macfadden decided to parachute out of an airplane over Niagara Falls. When horrified U.S. and Canadian officials forbade the stunt, Macfadden let it be known that he would jump out over New York's George Washington Bridge. The cops threatened to arrest...
Alarmed at last, police began a sweep of Communist areas, arrested more than1,000 suspects throughout the country. Last week, roundups reached the capital-and the top. In the early morning hours, police and MPs filtered along Jakarta's dusty, canal-lined streets, calling at the homes of Red-dominated Labor Ministry officials, leftist Chinese newspapermen, and 15 left-wing members of Parliament. Soldiers surrounded Parliament, waiting for a 16th legislator-who claimed immunity to arrest but was grabbed as he left the building at noon. Later, Dr. Sakirman, left-wing faction leader, called on President Soekarno to protest...
...Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China, who is under house arrest in Nanking...