Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
...forces of repression counterattacked. The then head of the KGB Vladimir Semichastny told a meeting of the Central Committee: "If you will permit me to arrest 1,000 to 1,200 of the most active members of the intelligentsia, I will guarantee absolute tranquillity within the country." He was given at least a partial mandate. A few months later, his men quietly rounded up some 150 to 300 intellectuals in Leningrad. A new, sinister note crept into the charges: "Conspiracy to armed rebellion." The secret police claimed to have smashed an underground terrorist network, extending to arrests of related groups...
...reason for hope was the suddenly flexible attitude of the administration. Early this month, Columbia requested that Manhattan courts drop criminal-trespass charges against almost 400 students arrested in the spring disorders. The university also lifted the suspensions of 42 other students-but not those of Rudd and 30 militants arrested for resisting arrest and inciting to riot. It also rescinded an almost meaningless rule forbidding indoor demonstrations. The thaw was designed to placate campus moderates while isolating the more intransigent radicals...
...point plan asked the government to: 1) respect the autonomy of the University, 2) remove the article of social dissolution which was being applied to censor freedom of speech (the article enabled the police to arrest any one speaking against the government), 3) release all political prisoners, 4) dissolve the Granaderos--a special police corps used against demonstrations and riots; and not create any similar organization, 5) remove the chief and subchief of police--those who were responsible for the police brutality--and 6) open an investigation into the participation of the army and the actions of the four secretaries...
Student, speakers came to address the government employees but they were chased away by the army. Violence, arrests and brutality characterized the next several days. One of the leaders of the teachers was beaten on the evening of August 28 but he escaped arrest and fled to the University. That night the army had 86 tanks two kilometers from the University of Mexico and also tanks near the Polytecnico, but they never entered the University grounds. On August 29, soldiers and police entered the community near the high school that had been the focus of the first police intervention...