Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet press has been blasting government officials since the recent announcement of the arrest of nine Soviet doctors accused of plotting murder of top officials...
...called on Congress to vote aid to the injured, numbering at least 500, and to the relatives of the dead. Next day, amidst national mourning, he led the funeral procession from the cathedral to Playa Ancha cemetery on a hill overlooking the disaster scene. Then he ordered the arrest of the district highway engineer who had stored the dynamite in the warehouse without notifying firemen and local authorities...
...things about handsome Captain Rodriguez, a colonel's son and a smart officer. They recalled how he had separated from his wife, and had taken up with an expensively beautiful brunette named Africa Peral Redondo, who was only 28 to his 40. Out went the alarm for the arrest of both of them. But this was nothing to the alarm that broke out when it was learned that Rodriguez and Africa had escaped to Paris, where Rodriguez was claiming political asylum as an anti-Franco refugee. He was merrily giving sensational interviews to anti-Franco newspapers and making anti...
...Paris, the Spanish ambassador requested Rodriguez' arrest and extradition. France, sensing the Spaniard's urgency, offered to trade Rodriguez for Raymond Viadieu, onetime deputy mayor of Toulouse now serving eight years in a Spanish jail for espionage. Tipped off about the deal, Rodriguez and Africa flew off to Mexico, which has neither diplomatic relations nor an extradition treaty with Spain. Mexico, however, badly wanted to get its hands on a couple of Mexican counterfeiters who were living a high life in Madrid after swamping Latin America with fake pesos. Madrid proposed a subtle solution...
Proud old King Ibn Saud was outraged. He ordered the arrest of his son and offered Mrs. Ousman the privilege of prescribing his death in any way she saw fit, with the added promise that his head should be stuck on a pike outside the British embassy. The widow declined the offer and accepted $70,000 in damages. Soon afterward the old King cut his son's sentence to a jail term with 20 lashes each month. The fault, he had decided, had been not so much the prince's as that of the foreigners who had taught...