Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delhi there were reports that when Mrs. Gandhi was warned of impending defeat, an inner circle of advisers tried to persuade her to annul the election, arrest the opposition leaders in the name of stability and reimpose the full force of the emergency. Whether or not the reports are true, Mrs. Gandhi-to her credit-accepted the voters' decision with quiet grace...
...defense witness testified Saturday that a group of mostly Indian men were participating in a religious ceremony on public land which they had permission to use when a noise complaint from a nearby resident prompted police to arrest 11 men last July...
...Angeles police questioned the mother and daughter for several hours before deciding to arrest Polanski. When they went to Nicholson's house to look for evidence, they found a small vial of cocaine belonging to Huston, and she was booked for possession of the expensive "nose candy...
Polanski, whose reputation for dating teen-age girls is well known in Hollywood, seemed remarkably unchastened by the impending legal action that could ruin his American career. Three days after his arrest he appeared at a fashionable restaurant accompanied by a girl who looked not a great deal older than the age of consent...
...demonstrably discouraged the Soviets from cracking down on dissidents. Although ailing Dr. Mikhail Shtern was released from a Ukrainian prison last week (and this may have some connection to the approach of the Vance visit), it might be argued that this was more than offset by the almost simultaneous arrest of Jewish Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, the 29-year-old computer expert who has been an unofficial spokesman for the human rights movement in the U.S.S.R. The officially controlled Soviet press continues to print vicious attacks on dissidents, U.S. diplomats and journalists. If anything, the shrillness of these attacks appears...