Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public phone booth. It was by now a familiar routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell the world...
Orlov's arrest was part of an intense human and political drama that involved the Soviet Union, other European Communist countries and parties, the U.S., the Western press and countless known as well as obscure subjects of Communist rule. Each of the participants was sometimes an instigator, sometimes a pawn...
Occasionally, a good story crops up, like that of Patrick Sweeney, assistant majority leader of the Ohio State Senate. Sweeney, an ex-Golden Gloves champ, catches a thief stealing his camera out of his car, chases him down and beats him up. When he decides to press charges, the arresting officer tells him that he wishes Sweeney had killed the poor thief--it's easier to make out a homicide report than an arrest record. Sweeney shows up in court promptly at 9 a.m. the next day. He gets heard five hours later, and walks out to find...
Among Russian dissidents in Moscow, jubilation over the Carter Administration's statements was tempered by Ginzburg's arrest. Still, the activists were grateful for the U.S. support of Sakharov, whom most dissidents regard as "the captain of our ship." Upon hearing of the State Department admonitions on foreign short-wave radio, "we nearly cried with relief," Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week. "It was what we were waiting for. We think it has saved Sakharov; we're convinced they won't touch...
...membership and possibly its entrenched position. There were 120 officers on the council when it ousted Haile Selassie; after last week's executions the group numbered only about 60. The previous chief of state, Lieut. General Aman Andom, was shot to death in November 1974 for "resisting arrest." Last July another internal fight led to the execution of Major Sisay Hapte, a high-ranking council member, and several other officials...