Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that in Poland there has been a great increase in civic liberties. He quoted a Polish newspaper as saying that since October 1956 there has not been one political arrest in the country which before saw political arrests by the hundreds every month...
...days, no one ever dared arrest a member of the ruling dynasty of Tunisia. But last week Prince Salaheddine, boisterous third son of the Bey of Tunis, languished in a jail charged with attempted murder of a police inspector (he had played once too often his favorite game of driving full speed toward a cop and slamming on the brakes just in time). Salaheddine's arrest was a sign that the end was near. Before the week was out the 76-year-old Bey, whose family has ruled Tunisia for 250 years, was unceremoniously toppled from his throne...
Deeds & Denials. As soon as the French realized their mistake, they apologized to Chaker, bound him to secrecy in the interest of furthering the negotiations. But Tunisian papers, angry at Chaker's arrest, broke the story; Paris' leftist press picked it up and soon all France was reading about the secret negotiations for peace...
President Coty apparently feared a changing mood in France, a growing weariness of the cost and futility of its Algerian effort, and sought to arrest that mood. At the moment, the government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury is operating on the dubious premise that the revolt can be "pacified," after which Algerian nationalists will get political benefits. But the deadline to this sort of postponement is the September U.N. session, when the Arab-Asian bloc can be expected to raise the Algerian question again. The French government is currently studying a project to offer Algeria a loi cadre (a "skeleton...
...Roman Catholic Pacifist-Anarchist Dorothy Day, ten members of the Catholic Worker movement (TIME, March 12, 1956) were arrested for failure to take shelter during Manhattan's civil-defense drill. After registering their disobedience as "a matter of conscience and a refusal to take part in what amounts to a deliberate campaign of psychological preparation for war," they were each sentenced in Manhattan arrest court to 30 days in jail...