Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month Reed and 18 other protesters were arrested and jailed in Delano, Minn. They were charged with trespassing on the right of way of a 427-mile high-voltage power line long opposed by many farmers and environmentalists. When word of Reed's arrest was flashed to a shocked Soviet public, the news agency Tass dispatched a special correspondent to cover the trial...
...federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude go-go club, was turned out of office...
Donald Woods, a white South African newspaper editor, was "banned" [put under a form of house arrest] by the South African government on October 19, 1977 for his outspoken criticism of apartheid--South Africa's policy of separation of the races. Since his dramatic New Year's Eve escape, Woods has been vigorously performing what he calls his "political duty"--traveling the length and breadth of Britain and the U.S. speaking out against apartheid, and urging the West to withdraw its corporations from his country. He is currently a visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard. This is the first...
...Black Panthers first came to prominence in the 1960s by appearing with guns in hand at scenes where white police were trying to arrest blacks. The police countered by repeatedly stopping and questioning Newton and his band. One of those confrontations led to the famous Shootout. There were three trials in all-a conviction reversed on appeal and two hung juries...
Marie Howe adds that even if the Ackermans are Nazis, "that's not why it [the assessment] went up ... I'm not saying anything against Ackerman.")CrimsonAnthea LetsouFor years, the Howe family has feuded with the weekly Somerville Journal. The newspaper's front page coverage of Marie Howe's arrest for disorderly conduct when she bit a police officer especially angered the Howes. After her brother was elected a city tax assessor, he increased the Journal's assessment by more than $10,000. "He singled us out, there's no question about it," says one newspaper staffer. "He didn...