Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following the German occupation of Hungary during World War II, Father Mindszenty harbored Jews in his palace and relentlessly denounced the Nazis from the pulpit until his arrest in 1944. After the war, Mindszenty became primate of Hungary and by 1948 was leading opposition to the Communist regime's plans to nationalize Church-operated schools and set up a Hungarian Church independent of-Rome. Offered as safe conduct out of Hungary by the government. Mindszenty refused, declaring. "God has ordained my fate and I give myself into his hands." Soon after he was arrested and tortured for 29 days before...
Under pressure from the Philippine government, the U.S. had reduced the number of refugees it was sending to Clark and designated Guam as the premier staging area in the Pacific. Worse still, Philippine officials threatened that they would arrest South Vietnamese military and government officials who were expected to arrive there at week's end aboard U.S. naval vessels: whether the Filipinos would choose to enter a U.S. base to do so remained uncertain. At the same time, U.S. authorities were coping with disgruntled American evacuees who did not fancy their lodgings and were impatient to be on their...
...Department of Defense or Chase Manhattan; those who are trained doctors or pharmacists; those who out of religious belief or political conviction made themselves early enemies of the new regime; those whose service in the Vietnamese army or government or whose working for the U.S. guaranteed their arrest, their "re-education," or in some cases their death. Most, though they looked as ragtag as any fleeing refugee, are urban and middleclass...
...final humiliation came to the former Chogyal, who is under house arrest, when security police searched his palace last week and confiscated his ham radio on the grounds that he was operating it without a license. Hope Namygal, who took refuge in Manhattan shortly after the 1973 uprising, says that she is "gravely concerned about the safety of the Chogyal and the many Sikkimese nationals who have tried to save their country's identity...
...really began in 1949, when the Soviet Union surprised U.S. experts by testing its first nuclear bomb. A natural fear that the Russians had stolen the secret was encouraged by a series of shocking facts: the 1950 arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice...