Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S story on Russian Poet Osip Mandelstam [Jan. 7], you quote Mandelstam's line about Stalin's "putting a raspberry in his mouth" after each death, and then later, in describing the poet's arrest, you say that Stalin "who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth." Mandelstam's reference to raspberries was in a very special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled...
...organized a neighborhood society of kids, called the Monkey Brigade, whose small members specialized in sneaking messages past British sentries, picketing stores selling foreign clothes, and freeing adult Congress members from routine jobs. A relative recalls that Indira once rushed up to some British police who were clubbing and arresting Indian demonstrators, crying, "Arrest...
...suffocate in his bonds. When Figon's accounts first began to appear in two weekly magazines, Minute and L'Express, the government tried to ignore the affair-just as the Gaullists had done during the December presidential election. Then, last week, the police moved in to arrest Figon, but, they reported, he had committed suicide before he could be taken alive. With that, the scandal could no longer be suppressed. As the satiric Canard Enchainé, right or wrong, put it last week: "Figon committed suicide with a shot fired against him from point-blank range." De Gaulle...
...Arrest That Minister! Next day, De Gaulle ordered that an "international warrant" be issued for the arrest of Oufkir and two of his aides. He hardly expected King Hassan to yield up his own Interior Minister to the French courts, but privately he conveyed to Hassan that the Elysée would not be satisfied until the King at least fired Oufkir. But King Hassan was angry too: he already had canceled a state visit to France because of the Ben Barka affair. At week's end he was still refusing to sack Oufkir, even though Paris threatened...
James Jackson Kilpatrick, the fiercely individualistic editor of the Richmond News Leader, got wind of the arrest, and he was outraged. As Kilpatrick sees it, part of a newspaper's job is to do its community a "very real and special service by poking fun and spoofing the hell out of despots on the bench." He ran an editorial asking for contributions to a Beadle Bumble Fund.* "The object of this fund," he wrote, "is to deflate an occasional overblown bureaucrat, to unstuff a few stuffed shirts and to promote the repeal of foolish and needless laws. There...