Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Newspaper Publishers Association, an organization of black publishers, complains: "You can't compromise essential freedoms for temporary safety." Lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. sought a temporary restraining order in federal court, arguing that blacks have been subject to "unlawful and indiscriminate stopping, searching, interrogation, detention and arrest without warrant or probable cause." The American Civil Liberties Union and Legal Defense Fund will also seek a restraining order; both suits will be heard next week by U.S. District Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli...
After the detectives threatened to arrest both him and his sister, Lennon agreed to work as an undercover agent for $50 a month. He was told to get into the branch of Sinn Fein (the I.R. A.'s political arm) in Luton, a north London industrial suburb. More specifically, he was to do his drinking at a pub called The Foresters, where he met several Irish militants. "I was told to get in on everything they were up to," Lennon recalled. "I cannot remember the exact words [the detectives] used, but one of them said that I should...
...Jingo. Papadopoulos himself no longer is under strict house arrest but lives quietly in a seaside villa rented from Aristotle Onassis. The suburban Athens house that Papadopoulos formerly occupied was recently rented by the bureau chief of the New York Times...
...toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960. Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife, who was shot while she was said to be resisting arrest at the Presidential Palace...
...strongman, Lieut. Colonel Seyni Kountie, 43, a former officer in the French army, publicly claimed it was the drought that did in Niger's democracy. He charged that the popularly elected government "lacked organization and initiative when confronted with the crisis." Kountie put President Diori under house arrest, dissolved the National Assembly, and banned all political activity. It was black Africa's 32nd coup...