Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergency powers allowing him to order home thermostats to be set at no more than 65°. Businesses were given the option of operating at 65° for 40 hours a week or for unlimited hours at 50°. Byrne promised to send police to check up and arrest malefactors, and cops patrolled with bullhorns, bellowing out the Governor's stern message...
...date only one arrest has been made: a restaurant owner who refused to limit his hours or turn down his thermostat. Cops cannot barge into any homes without a warrant, but Byrne's plan seems to be working. Says Sergeant Charles Clayton of the Bridgeton police: "These people lead real easy...
...must have sent some nervous shivers down the spine of Gandhi, her son Sanjay, and her other chief political advisers. Nineteen months earlier a similar speech by J.P. had spurred the Prime Minister to declare "emergency rule," muzzling the Indian press and placing her most dangerous political opponents under arrest. At that time, Gandhi faced indictment for violation of election laws during the 1973 Parliamentary elections. Confronting a dilemma similar to the one which former President Nixon faced in August of 1974, Gandhi took steps that would have seemed inconceivable in the United States, but for which ample precedent...
Wilson argued that inverse relationships between crime and arrest rates cannot be considered the result of an overburdened police force with lower efficiency because he said the average policeman makes only five felony arrests a year...
...East. Promising to combat violence "without regard to persons, groups or ideologies," the government at first banned demonstrations, and later suspended, for one month, two articles of Spain's Bill of Rights that protect against arbitrary search and assure the right to be charged within 72 hours of arrest. Police arrested more than 30 people, including Mariano Sanchez Covisa, a leader of the Guerrilleros (who was later released), 15 non-Spaniards and several members of extreme left groups. The government deported another 70 foreigners, many of them from among the hundreds of right-wing fanatics who had found...