Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royal capital, leftist students stormed the compound of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Waving banners and banging drums, they smashed desks and tossed typewriters through windows. During a similar attack against USAID facilities at Savannakhet, a youthful mob looted food stocks and placed three Americans under house arrest. At week's end the demonstrators were refusing to release the three unless senior government officials came to Savannakhet to discuss student demands that Vientiane remove "corrupt" and rightist officials...
...early as 1919 (and who had also been imprisoned by the Nazis) received a life sentence at that 1949 trial. Except for a few days of liberty during the 1956 freedom fighters' uprising, he was to spend the next 22 years either in prison cells, under house arrest, or in asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. Many of those thousands of days were endured with little or no contact with other human beings...
...there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course, with constant repetition, you get more and more brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack." The year before, in 1955, Lee had asked, "If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him when you cannot charge him with any offense against any written law--if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states--then what...
Understandably, many women were outraged at the judges' language, and their view of the male right of conquest. Yet in both cases the offenders fared poorly. Evans was found guilty of escaping from police after his arrest and of trespassing in the apartment that he used. As to the British four, the Law Lords upheld their convictions, saying that the jury had enough evidence to conclude that the four did not really believe their victim meant...
...decade after the death of her husband King Norodom Suramarit in 1960, Kossamak reigned as Cambodia's "Supreme Guardian" while her son acted as chief of state. Following the 1970 coup that ousted Sihanouk and abolished the monarchy, Kossamak, her health failing, was held under virtual house arrest for three years before being allowed to join Sihanouk in exile in Peking. Her deepening illness clouded Sihanouk's recent victory celebrations and delayed the return home of the newly appointed lifetime head of the Khmer state...