Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly afterwards, most of the students dispersed to board buses out of Washington. Two students--later joined four others--stayed behind to sit-in the steps of the Capitol. They left after 11 p.m. when police threated to arrest one of them--Phillip A. a 17-year-old Freshman at Reserve College--for violation...
...their "Thoreau Walk," some of them will risk arrest by publicly refusing to pay their taxes for this year...
...amphibious car rolled the viscous surface of the Charles last Sunday, but it aroused the interest of few people besides a policeman who threatened to arrest its driver for disturbing the peace...
...civil rights scene. Then the white racists of Alabama, in characteristic fashion, shattered that peace by murdering a white woman from Detroit. This act of moronic savagery once again outraged the national conscience, provoked the President of the U.S. into a nationwide television outburst, in which he announced the arrest of four Ku Klux Klansmen and demanded that Congress curb the Klan...
...Cuvette Centrale province, the government discovered enough "corruption" to declare a state of emergency. The provincial governor and two of his ministers were placed under house arrest, and three special commissioners with dictatorial powers arrived from Leopoldville to take over. By a happy chance, all three are strong supporters of Tshombe as well as actual election candidates in the province. Tshombe's chances in Cuvette Centrale suddenly looked much brighter...