Word: arrested
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...emphasize Caramanlis' words, the Cabinet last week restored to the civilians in the Ministry of Defense complete authority over the armed forces. The E.S.A., the hated military police, was deprived of its powers to arrest and interrogate civilians. It was the E.S.A. that Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis used to make himself the junta's strongman and terrorize the Greek populace. Widely blamed for planning the coup against Cyprus' President Makarios, which led to the Turkish invasion, loannidis has not been seen publicly since the civilian government was installed. He has been stripped of his power and placed...
...movie is a study in tension. Despite the lack of a surprise ending, suspense increases scene by scene as it becomes more apparent that Serpico is a thorn in the side of the police department. Making an arrest in plainclothes, Serpico is fired on by uniformed officers who don't recognize him as a cop. The scene develops almost humorously, with Serpico crouched in a corner, frantically waving his badge and shouting "police officer," but the point is unmistakably made that his life is worthless to any enemy on the force...
Less than three weeks after the arrest of the Watergate wiretappers, the possibility of granting them Executive clemency was discussed by the President and Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman later recalled before a Watergate grand jury that he held a "very long, rambling conversation" with the President on or about July 4, 1972. Testified Ehrlichman: "We talked about the Watergate defendants, and I raised the point with the President that presidential pardons or something of that kind inevitably would be a question that he would have to confront." Ehrlichman added in his testimony that Nixon expressed the "firm view [that] he would never...
Beate's first encounter with German authorities came in 1968, when she was arrested for slapping then Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, an exonerated onetime member of the Nazi Party. Though Beate was tried and sentenced to a year's imprisonment (later changed to probation), her hatred of Nazis grew even greater. She and her law-student husband, whose father died at Auschwitz, began to compile dossiers on unpunished German war criminals. In 1971, Beate launched almost singlehanded a campaign to catch and arrest "the Butcher of Lyon," ex-SS Captain Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Peru, then Bolivia...
Offices and banks shut down, most buses and trains stopped running, many food stores, closed. Except for the vigil by mourners, Buenos Aires last week came to a standstill in grieving for Juan Domingo Perón. His death at 78 from severe influenza followed by cardiac arrest plunged the nation into sorrow and anxiety over the future of Argentina without Per?...