Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane returned to the terminal, and McAward was ordered off. "The only way I'm leaving is if you place me under arrest," he said. The airline obliged and called the state police. McAward told the judge: "I felt I was entitled to what the Federal Government says I'm entitled to-a nonsmoking seat." But the judge fined him $250 for interfering with a flight crew...
Ever since Shcharansky's arrest 16 months ago on what Western experts regard as baseless spy charges, the U.S. has made it clear that his continued imprisonment constituted a blatant violation of the human rights that the Carter foreign policy seeks to protect. Not only has Vance urged Moscow not to press the charges, but Carter took the unusual step of publicly denying that Shcharansky had ever been a CIA employee. He thus committed his personal prestige to a declaration that the Soviets now propose to challenge in a Moscow court...
...first time since he said goodbye to the White House staff four years ago and flew away to his self-imposed house arrest in San Clemente, Nixon came to speak at a fully public occasion. He had rejected 100,000 invitations. He chose Hyden carefully: a remote eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of 500, Republican since the Civil War, where the virtue of loyalty has been toughened into a kind of clannish defiance. Nixon rightly sensed that there he would find, unregenerate, some of the believers he described to H.R. Haldeman in the spring of 1973, when his Administration...
...hatred for Indira Gandhi. Though temporarily incapacitated by a heart attack, Singh warned that Desai's action against Narain had "sounded the death knell of the Janata Party." At the same time, he launched his own indirect offensive against Desai by calling for Mrs. Gandhi's immediate arrest. Scorning Desai's view that she had been punished enough by her defeat at the polls last year, Singh declared that the government's failure to arrest Mrs. Gandhi for abuse of power during her 21-month emergency rule had disillusioned all of India. "The people think that...
Actually, he is a mechanic who services tractors sold by International Harvester to the U.S.S.R. The charge against him was that he had "systematically sold to individual Soviet citizens large amounts of foreign currency at speculative prices," a crime punishable by up to eight years in prison. His arrest stirred concern among some U.S. executives that doing business with the U.S.S.R. might become risky...