Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French official. "Don't let them in," he warned. "Once they get the layout, they won't miss again." Now Clostermann goes about armed. In nine months French counterterrorists have committed more than 80 murders. In nine months the sympathetic local police have not made a single arrest...
Last week the Communists proclaimed a "general strike." Nominally, the strike was a protest against the arrest of six of their leaders, but its real aim was to embarrass the new leftist government of David Marshall. Chief Minister Marshall, a fast-talking criminal lawyer who greatly admires Nye Bevan, horrified Singapore's starchy Britishers by winning the colony's first election two months ago. His election also aroused the Communists, who resented his stealing their campaign for self-government away from them. Moving into action, the Communist strike organizers halted bus lines, picketed pineapple canneries, granite quarries, rubber...
...corridors. The Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked three times with his staff at the barred doors. When the doors...
...sponsor and seconder. Next day he was conducted to the House of Peers, reported back that he had, in the Commons' name, "laid claim, by humble petition to Her Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require . . ." From 1399 to 1510, six Speakers had lost their heads for presenting such claims-hence the traditional show of reluctance to assume the chair...
...about her again? As in Tito's case, her fall from grace had all been a mis take, the Russians had explained, perpetrated by Soviet Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. Now that Beria was executed, the Russians were correcting their error. When a reporter asked if she feared being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants her a passport, said Journalist...