Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives shelter to Hungarians of all sects who manage to slip across the border. The Vatican's man in charge: Monsignor Josef Zagon, 42, onetime chancellor of the diocese of Györ and follower of Cardinal Mindszenty, who escaped from Hungary just before the cardinal's arrest...
...good measure they ripped up two apartments below the Clarks (the tenants, like most of the 19 families in the apartment house, had long since fled). Then the mass of broken furniture on the lawn was set afire and the cheers grew louder. Police did not make a single arrest. At about 2:30, the mob once again faded away, but everybody knew that it would be back...
From the moment of their arrest a month ago, he has been on their heels, opposing every move to reduce their bail. He carried his vigilance even further. He argued that the $171,000 bail which they did produce was "tainted," since it was provided by the Communist Civil Rights Congress. He persuaded Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan to revoke the bail and remand the Reds to jail, until the source of the bonds could be more closely scrutinized. His argument: the Civil Rights Congress unblinkingly forfeited $23,500 bail when Top Communist Gerhart Eisler fled the U.S., also stood surety...
That evening, the Communist-led Tudeh party struck in Teheran. The success of the Harriman mission would arrest Iran's march to chaos and kill the Reds' chance of taking power in a bankrupt country. Ten thousand demonstrators, shouting about "Harriman, warmonger" and "Rapacious American imperialists," rushed toward Majlis Square...
From New York Times Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt, in Paris this week, came a report of what covering the news is like behind the Iron Curtain. Schmidt, who slipped out of Prague 13 months ago, after a tip that the Czech police were ready to arrest him on phony charges, wrote: "Even the official sources of information had dried up." To get what news he could, Schmidt had to rely on "visits after dark, meetings on street corners, anonymous telephone calls, letters shoved under doors." Before the Czech Communist coup in February 1948, said he, there were...