Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They finally got me... John Adamson, find him"−had resulted in the arrest of Adamson. More significantly, they had ensured the first major statewide investigation of the corruption that has enriched home-grown and imported conmen, including Mafiosi, while bilking land buyers of more than $500 million since the mid-1960s...
Emory's arrest was not his first. In 1962, he was convicted of second-degree murder of a patient who died after an illegal abortion. In 1963, while free on appeal from his first conviction, he was convicted of performing another illegal abortion, was subsequently sent to prison on that charge for three years and had his license revoked. Soon after his license was reinstated in May 1974, he began the cut-rate deliveries that led to his newest arrest...
...congressional source: "No doubt about it, she's been making tapes. She's been telephoning Senators and Congressmen and asking them, 'Honey, do you remember that night when ... ?'" Whatever they said went into her recorders. It's enough to give a public servant cardiac arrest." It was also enough to prompt a number of legislators to deny having ever had anything to do with Ray. "Nonsense, sheer and utter nonsense," said Hubert Humphrey to rumors linking...
...under considerable pressure. TIME's Beirut bureau chief Karsten Prager, after a visit to Syria last week, confirmed that anti-Assad demonstrations had taken place in Palestinian refugee camps there and as many as 400 Syrian army officers had been detained for questioning or put under house arrest because they opposed the government line on Lebanon. But Prager found no imminent signs of a coup or precautions against one, although one Arab diplomat told him, "It is worse than ever. Assad is up to his neck...
...raped. The store detectives suspected Bernstein of being an accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein and the two girls denied knowing her, the store insisted on pressing charges. "You might have a false arrest on your hands," warned the sergeant at the police station when Bernstein was brought in and fingerprinted. False arrest it was, and the innocent Bernstein never quite recovered from the ordeal. Psychiatrists found her a "seriously ill young lady who has a tenuous social and psychological equilibrium as a result...