Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening of the second day, the radio began broadcasting the commandos' communiqué, calling for National Guardsmen to arrest their superiors or flee with their arms. Next morning, 45 hours after it began, the siege ended peacefully. A bus drew up to the National Palace and one by one the Sandinistas walked out, leaving their captives behind, and clambered aboard. "With the black-and-red Sandinista flag flying from the bus and the guerrillas waving their rifles, it looked like a victory parade," reported TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich from the scene. "All along the eight-mile route, thousands...
...Kenya to work for African self-rule. He soon emerged as the strongest of the colony's black political leaders, and within a few years was caught up in the controversy over the Mau Mau. After a series of terrorist murders in 1952, the colonial government ordered his arrest and charged him with being the mastermind behind the Mau Mau organization. He was convicted in a sort of political show trial and sent off to nine years of detention and restriction...
...union. Stevens bosses, says Tate, do not make that threat directly because it is illegal, but their wives and relatives pass the word in gossip. In the West, Chaikin charges, owners of some garment plants have prompted the U.S. Immigration Service to raid their own factories and arrest signers of union cards as illegal immigrants?which many indeed were...
...ordered Bob Weatherwax, the son of her famous trainer, Rudd, to put her on a leash. "This dog never wears a leash," protested Weatherwax. "This is Lassie!" Responded the cop: "Right, and I'm the King of Siam. Now get a leash, or I'll have to arrest...
Reformers like Alschuler and Morris think that judges should be involved in plea bargaining. Rather than prosecutors making deals based on a "rap sheet" and an arrest report, negotiations should be done out in the open, with the defendant present and with more thorough pre-sentence investigation. Others question whether judges are any less arbitrary than prosecutors and look to mandatory sentences fixed by legislatures as the answer...