Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven hundred and fifty National Guardsmen, 200 highway patrolmen, 175 city policemen, tanks, and two helicopters guarded the funeral procession. The governor declared a state of emergency and issued an unlimited search warrant allowing officers to search at random and arrest anyone carrying a weapon...
...four bodyguards had been killed by KCIA Director Kim Jae Kyu and five of his men during dinner in a private room of a KCIA building. The alleged assassin and the dinner's sole survivor, Park's presidential chief of staff, Kim Kae Won, were both under arrest, and 30 to 50 KCIA officers had also been taken in for questioning. Each successive government explanation, however, left a trailing edge of mystery about who, exactly, had been involved and how far conspiracy had extended...
...murder story, this one involving General Chung. According to this widely circulated, "semiofficial" account, Kim tried to persuade Chung to join the conspiracy, declare martial law and mobilize certain military forces, presumably for the purpose of taking over the country. According to these reports, Chung refused and ordered the arrest of Kim and his coconspirators...
Only outspoken Dissident Kim Dae Jung, 53, dared to break the silence maintained by other politicians. Still under house arrest for his long opposition to the Park regime, Kim urged that the existing 2,583-member electoral college should be scrapped in favor of a direct, popular election for a new President...
Saddam Hussein's consolidation of power has included the arrest last July of 67 Cabinet members, politicians and government employees in an alleged conspiracy against the new regime; 21 officials, including a Deputy Prime Minister, were executed for treason, but the rationale for the purge remains a mystery. The government branded the plot a Communist attempt to oust Saddam Hussein and unofficially suggested that Syria was behind the machinations. Most Western observers believe it was engineered by the new President simply to eliminate critics of his authoritarian rule...