Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again in Stalin's lifetime did Russia's top soldier hold a top command. But with Stalin's death, Zhukov came marching home. An uncertain new regime, needing the support of the Red army marshals, made him a Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached a position of first rank-though still lower than that of the party's watchdog of the military, Marshal Bulganin...
...increase of cases of European terrorism aimed at the natives. Often the activities of the "counter-terrorists," as they call themselves, are conducted with the tacit complicity of local cops, who have little patience with the slow-moving machinery of French justice. "What?" bellowed one indignant Casablanca policeman recently. "Arrest Frenchmen for killing these Moroccan pigs? They ought to be given the Legion of Honor." Seeing Nothing. Morocco's French-colonial vigilantes are largely concentrated in three small, tightly knit undercover groups: the White Hand, Agir (to act), and the more formally titled Organisation de Défense Anti...
...government bulletin the next day apparently explained what had happened to the inside men. A number of armed men dressed in civilian clothes, it said, had been caught inside the base. When asked to surrender, the group "unfortunately decided to resist arrest, resulting in six casualties." President Carlos Castillo Armas blamed the plot mostly on Arbencistas-diehard followers of pro-Communist ex-President Jacobo Arbenz, the victim of Castillo Armas' successful revolution last June...
Sure that "hundreds of terrorists were in Washington City," he ordered all firemen on the alert against possible mass arson. Without bothering about legal authority, he ordered the arrest of "every human being" employed at Ford's Theatre...
...news tip came to Los Angeles' Mirror-News Columnist Paul V. Coates on Christmas Eve. In Riverside, Calif., Coates was told, a prisoner had been in jail for twelve days. Reason for the prisoner's arrest, as stated in the official record: he was "in danger of leading a lewd and immoral life." Age of the prisoner: seven...