Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pictures and concepts of how he will fit in when he gets out." Moreover, as long as penal institutions are in remote rural areas, they are apt to be ignored. "Out of sight, out of mind. The community should have to deal with the problem that brought about the arrest, sentence and conviction in the first place. I believe the more involved the community becomes, the less crime we will have. Volunteers who visit or teach in the prisons are so important for motivation and hope. A great many men and women who are incarcerated need motivation...
LUMUMBA. The Soviet Union supported him with money and arms in the contest to take the former Belgian Congo out of the West's orbit. While the CIA supported President Moïse Tshombe of Katanga against Lumumba, it had no part in Lumumba's arrest and murder by Katanganese soldiers. He was a casualty of African tribal politics...
...Guillermo Hernan Herrera Manriquez was arrested by DINA, Chile's dread secret police, near Santiago's central railroad station. Herrera was detained briefly and then was taken to his father's home; along with the rest of his family, he was placed under house arrest. The next day Herrera was allowed to speak to his wife, who reported that he had been badly beaten and his ears, mouth and genitals subjected to electric shock. Herrera was permitted no medical attention by his DINA guards. Two days later, his father heard noises from the room where...
When news of his arrest in Houston reached Taylor's estranged wife in San Diego, she said Taylor had once told her that he had killed four people in Onsted. Meanwhile Taylor began to talk. But last week he insisted to a Houston justice of the peace that the police had beaten confessions out of him; the police called the charges nonsense...
...example, Arias has been unable to check the terrorism of Basque separatists. After the small secret ETA, the most radical of the Basque groups, recently shot five policemen, the Guardia Civil retaliated by sweeping through the areas around Bilbao and San Sebastián. Madrid admits to the arrest of 200 suspects, but a group of Basque lawyers claims that the number jailed totals 2,000. In the past month the government has also detained and beaten two Catholic priests suspected of aiding the separatists. So explosive has the situation in Basque country become that the regime has banned...