Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrest and deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn should not surprise the world, as it is a logical outgrowth of the greatest assault ever mounted on the human spirit, which began under Lenin and did not cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week...
Just 25 years ago last week, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment for trumped-up crimes against Hungary's Communist regime. After six years in Hungarian prisons and a brief period under house arrest, he lived for 15 years in the U.S. legation in Budapest, where he had taken refuge during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. During all that time and while he was exiled in Vienna after 1971 Mindszenty clung prodly to his titles of Archibishop of Esztergom, an ancient see that includes Budapest, and Primate (first bishop) of the Hungarian hierarchy. Last week Pope Paul...
...idea of undercover agents posing as students is frightening. The idea that two of the students face possible life imprisonment is even more frightening. What did Rockefeller have in mind, or was he thinking at all, when he had the ruthless drug laws enacted? One of the undergraduates arrested, a pre-law student who plans to try to continue with school while awaiting trial, said after his arrest, "I'm scared to death." Is Rockefeller satisfied with this kind of response, or with his severe laws, which scare people to death instead of solving the drug problem...
...defendant in a recent Chicago trial was charged with carrying a sawed-off shotgun into a bar. His defense was that a companion, who had already pleaded guilty to a related offense, had also been the person holding the shotgun. Policemen who made the arrest stated flatly that they had seen the accused drop the shotgun and kick it away when they entered the saloon. Nonetheless, the jury voted for acquittal. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, a policeman testified in a narcotics case that the defendant had indeed asked to see a search warrant, but had willingly admitted...
...more widespread practice of "dropsy" testimony. The Supreme Court had ruled that evidence abandoned by a suspect is no longer constitutionally protected. This logical legal distinction has resulted in literally hundreds of police every year reporting in court that defendants dropped incriminating evidence-usually narcotics -thereby justifying arrest. There are local variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents often leave their apartment doors open with bags of heroin...