Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...
...least one French organization-Agence France Presse. Working under the umbrella of France's cordial relations with some of the world's prickliest countries, A.P.P. men report from 144 nations and territories outside France. Now that the Reuters man in Peking has been placed under house arrest, A.F.P.'s Jean Vincent and René Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi, and during the six-day war between the Arabs and Israelis, the agency maintained service from...
...seemed like old times - the friendly days before Nasser fired him for losing the war with Israel. The illusion did not last long. At dinner, Nasser in formed the marshal that he was under house arrest...
Three young Belgians who strayed into the eastern Congo recently while studying African tribal life were summarily executed only hours after their arrest by Congolese troops. A Belgian mining technician and his wife were murdered a few days later. Belgian officials barely bothered to protest. With more than 20 whites killed by Congolese soldiers since the mercenary rebellion began, Brussels has just about lost all confidence in the ability or will of Mobutu and his government to protect whites. "Sometimes," sighed a white resident of the Katanga provincial capital of Lubumbashi last week, "we feel as though this...
...Marx. Imprisoned in the flyspecked oil town of Camiri, Debray was charged with murder, arson, armed insurrection, conspiracy against the state and illegal entry into Bolivia. He was held for trial by a military tribunal rather than a civilian criminal court. His arrest brought immediate protests from the French Ambassador, screams from the French press, and a personal appeal from De Gaulle. The Human Rights Commissions of France, Italy and Belgium dispatched observers to plead his case. His father, who is a lawyer, his mother, who is a Paris city councilwoman, and his childhood nurse all flew to the Bolivian...