Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belkacem Krim. The newer leadership aimed at combining the fighting in Algeria with diplomatic maneuvers and appeals to world opinion. Abbane protested against the new line loudly and ineffectually, was often seen eating a solitary meal in cheap restaurants. One day he disappeared from Tunis, was rumored under house arrest until last week's notice of his death...
...Shame to the Cause." Before his arrest, without a warrant, Alleg had been hiding out for months to escape internment after the banning of Alger Républicain, the Communist daily that he edited 1950-55. He wrote The Question four months after he was tortured, managed to smuggle it out of the civil prison in Algiers where he is still held on the charge of "endangering the safety of the State...
Dunster House friends of Dowling had donated blood in an attempt to arrest the disease which struck him during the last Spring Weekend. In all, 20 members of the House responded to a plea by the University Health Service for blood for transfusions...
Quacks & Idealists. But somehow, Russian science managed to survive. The party might elevate such quacks as the former charwoman, Olga Lepeshinkaya, who insisted that a certain 1% soda solution could arrest the aging process, but most real scientists simply ignored her. The party denounced the Einstein theory, the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics, and cybernetics as "idealistic." But the scientists used the work of Einstein and Bohr to develop Russia's atomic bomb, and the Soviet began turning out calculators as fast as it could. Physicist Peter Kapitsa, who was placed under arrest for refusing to work...
...then U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, veteran Career Diplomat John Allison, whose reward had been replacement by Ambassador Jones. Washington then had more hopes and fears-fears that the Communists were about to take over Indonesia lock, stock and barrel; hopes that the rebels would be able to arrest the Communist drift...