Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the time of the destruction of Jewish cultural life in the Soviet Union and the arrest of leading Jewish intellectuals. A purge of the arts was under way that mortally threatened those writers and composers who had survived the Great Terror of the mid-'30s. In music the principal target was Shostakovich. Though laden with Stalin Prizes, he was now being termed the author of "un-Soviet, unwholesome, eccentric, tuneless" works. He knew what to do. In 1936 he had nearly lost his life after receiving a public "whipping" for an opera that had displeased Stalin. Following...
Racial violence continues unchecked in Boston largely because white-instigated crimes are often overlooked by the police, and when an arrest is made, the accused are rarely prosecuted on charges commensurate with their alleged crimes. More rarely still are they convicted. Blacks, too, have contributed to the escalation of violence by retaliating with terrorism of their own, but they do so with a far greater assurance of being apprehended and convicted...
Rosa begins to resent the constant need for discretion--the daily hardening to face surveillance or arrest. She knows the policeman who trails her, picks out the government's spy at a political meeting, stares down the agent who watches her as she finally flees the counry. Her discretion is so instinctive that she insulates herself from all human contact, passing through lovers with the self-possession noted approvingly in a school report written during her father's arrest...
Although Powers believes that the students did not trespass on the property of the Seabrook power plant, he said the suit would assert that the lawful remedy to suspected trespass is arrest and legal prosecution. The police used tactics justified only in cases where arrest is resisted, he said, adding that the tactics used constituted "police misconduct" and "deprivation of the right to due process...
Denver County District Attorney Dale Tooley, who with Steinberg presented the jury program to the students last spring, believes one reason for its success is that the kids get a hearing within days after their arrest, instead of brooding for two or three months while awaiting conventional trial. More important perhaps is the program's philosophy that young people are responsible for their actions, coupled with close followup: the district attorney's office remembers delinquents on holidays and birthdays-even after they have left the program-and makes sure that they observe whatever curfew...