Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that of Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 52, military commander of the Oran region, who took over as "coordinator" of the armed forces during Boumedienne's long illness. Virtually no chance at all is given to the long deposed Ben Bella. At 62, he is living in comfortable house arrest...
Beginning with their arrest in October 1976, members of the radical Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, have been held responsible for everything from crop failures to the shortage of sidewalk cafes. Many of the accusations are justified. But in China now, when a foreigner mentions the Gang of Four, it often happens that the Chinese with whom he is talking will hold up five fingers and say, "Ah, yes, the Gang of Four." The small subversive joke reflects what most Chinese accept: that Mao not only permitted but encouraged the activities of his wife...
From Gandhi's point of view, that probably was just as well: her chances of recapturing the prime ministership she lost in 1977 might be enhanced by her being in jail. During the debate over how to punish her for ordering the arrest in 1975 of four officials assigned to investigate the tangled business affairs of her son Sanjay, 32, she sought to provoke Desai's Janata Party into rashly locking her up. By so doing, the Times of India editorialized last week, she would gain "concrete evidence that when it comes to dealing with political opponents, Janata...
Davenport police thereupon obtained an arrest warrant to make a date with the lovable bachelor. Last week, Shelton was returned to the institution he had fled...
...incident came one year to the exact day and hour after a raid which resulted in the arrest of seven undergraduates. After last year's arrests five students were forced to withdraw and others received a maximum of one and a half years of probation...