Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Answer in Anger. As soon as he was in the air, the pilot of the Greek Airlines plane which had waited for Makarios at Nicosia airport radioed the news of the arrest to Greece. In Athens Premier Constantine Karamanlis called together a government council, which decided to recall Greece's Ambassador to Britain and in structed Greece's permanent representative to the U.N. to register a protest with the U.N. As the news traveled through
...familiar picture reappeared on the Asian scene recently as Thailand's dictator-Premier, Pibul Songgram, took action to halt criticism of his government by suppression of public gatherings and threats to arrest critical newspaper editors. The action followed increased agitation for the abandonment of Thailand's pro-Western policies, a return to pre-1950 neutralism, and for parliamentary reform. Marshal Pibul charges that the attacks are the work of communist subversives who are "plunging the nation into chaos...
...anti-U.S. campaign (during the Korean war) gave Lo's men an excuse to arrest Chinese doctors, technicians and professionals educated in the West (and therefore suspected counterrevolutionaries) and to pick up servants and drivers who had worked for foreigners. An anti-Christian campaign was conducted under cover of the Communist-backed Three-Self movement, designed to cut the local churches off from the rest of Christendom, but failed when Roman Catholic authorities refused to bend to a rump Catholic Church that the Reds tried to organize. So Lo went ahead arresting missionaries, priests and clergymen as spies...
...General Phuong one day last year, "for a good sweep of brooms down at the Holy See." The general surprised the Cao Daist "Vatican" at siesta time, disarmed the 400-man papal guard and clapped a score of corrupted princes of the church, including the pope himself, under house arrest...
...should not be left to the discretion of a policeman whether to make an arrest or let the child go. Such power in the hands of a policeman may lead to serious abuses. Suppose a boy steals. His parents manage to make restitution. Or the frantic mother goes to any length to persuade the officer to overlook the offense. Or the case is dealt with by voluntary agencies. That couldn't happen in England. There, if a boy is caught, he must come before the court. That is bet ter, both for society and for the boy. Juvenile delinquency...