Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to be selling encyclopedias door to door. Hold it, did he say encyclopedias? Come on, a Harvard graduate, you've got to be kidding. The whole set-up reminded me of the ads on TV for computer schools, conservation schools ("wear the badge of authority, protect nature and arrest violators") and the like. In other words...
...worked in such shadowy ways that no one, least of all Solzhenitsyn, was able to establish the secret police's role in these conspiracies. Since his expulsion from the Soviet Union last February, the writer has uncovered one such KGB plot that could have led to his arrest on treason charges. In the following article written expressly for TIME-the first he has published since coming to the West-Solzhenitsyn provides a detailed example of how the secret police can threaten the lives of Soviet dissidents...
...know how widespread this provocation was or how it would have gone if I had not been expelled from the Soviet Union. Apparently the aim was to arrest some Russian emigres from the West who were visiting Prague and to construct around them a criminal case that would have demonstrated that I had links with emigre organizations. "Links with the outside" is a beloved theme song of Soviet propaganda...
...Brandt would soon resign as Chancellor. Yet West Germany, and indeed all of Western Europe, was caught by surprise last week when the 60-year-old leader abruptly announced that he was leaving office. The ostensible cause of his resignation was the scandal that followed last month's arrest of Günter Guillaume, a close personal aide who confessed to being an East German spy. (TIME...
Claiming that his arrest signaled a lockout by the News, he threw pickets around the paper's headquarters. The News replied that its composing room was open to any printers willing to work at normal speed. The International Typographers Union sided with the paper; it refused to decree a lockout and ruled that Powers' local was engaged in an "unauthorized strike." As a result, members of other unions crossed the typographers' picket lines, and the News continued to reach the newsstands...