Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst crisis to over take his realm since 1871, the prestige and power of handsome, autocratic Prince Rainier lay under eclipse. With Monaco's solvency teetering in the balance, Rainier's National Council stepped in, began a searching investigation. First move: to persuade French police to arrest Banker Liambey in his villa at nearby Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat...
...jungles, found the statues, and lugged them out on oxcarts. The French colonial authorities promptly impounded them as historical monuments, and put Malraux on trial for trying to remove them. His wife rushed back to France, succeeded in getting an impressive list of important writers to protest his arrest. His trial was dropped, and the saturnine young man returned to France as the dashing hero of a cause célèbre. The Malraux legend was launched, and Malraux was well pleased. "A break in the established order is never the work of chance," he declared...
...corps) seems to be that of a dictator-admiring gang, happy with the pay, perquisites and polite graft that Perón provides. Despite persistent reports that the rebellious elements of the navy still had some bargaining power, he removed revolt-leading Rear Admiral Anibal Olivieri from comfortable barracks arrest to the National Penitentiary, and arrested officers at the Belgrano naval base. Then Perón called off the state of siege declared at the height of the revolt...
That, of course, meant no new birth of freedom for troubled Argentina. Things just reverted to the usual "state of internal war" under which Perón has wielded unconstitutional powers of arrest and repression for four years...
Resistance. The Punjabi government warned: "Shout your slogans in meetings if you want, but not in processions with swords at every waist." Tara Singh defied the ban and was arrested. But taking a leaf out of Gandhi's book, he instructed his followers to remain "nonviolent" and "to offer no provocation." Since then, all over th,e Punjab,, bearded Sikhs have stood in front of policemen (the favorite place: before the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar), shouting their slogans and courting arrest. Already nearly 7,000 Sikhs have been jailed...