Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...file reports on membership and finances, three segregationist organizations did. But the real target of the ordinance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fearing to bring its members and contributors under increased pressure in emotion-torn Little Rock, refused. Last week the city council ordered the arrest of N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Joseph C. Crenchaw and Daisy Bates. Crenchaw, 74, a Baptist preacher who is president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, gave himself up, was booked and released on $300 bond. Daisy Bates, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Arkansas branch, and front-line leader during the crisis...
...months, Indonesia's boldest and best-known newspaper editor, Indonesia Raya's Mochtar Lubis, 35, has been under house arrest for speaking up against President Sukarno's drift toward Communism. Last week Sukarno's government took another step toward its goal of "guided democracy." On pain of suspension, other Djakarta newspapers and magazines were warned not even to mention Editor Lubis' name...
...content with keeping Mochtar Lubis out of circulation-and out of print-Sukarno's government has shut down his crusading paper three times in less than a year. From the day of Lubis' arrest, anti-Communist Indonesia Raya (circ. 40,000), the nation's leading independent daily, started carrying a Page One box each morning reminding readers of its editor's arbitrary imprisonment. Ordered last month to drop the box, Raya pointedly substituted three inches of white space, plus another big gap where it would normally have carried an editorial explaining the omission...
Light-Fingered. In Seoul, Korea, three officials of the Railroad Bureau were sacked for "unbecoming conduct" after their arrest on charges of stealing ten tons of rails...
...Smith's ruling, Nkrumah's tough-talking Interior Minister Krobo Edusei had promised new legislation "to deal with traitors in this country," empowering the regime to declare a state of emergency in any area and arrest, deport or bar from the area anyone the government chooses...