Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhee moved swiftly to calm the storm. He signed a law, already passed by the Assembly, abolishing the corps, ordered the arrest of the corps commander, a hulking ex-wrestler named Kim Yong Keun. The Assembly was not pacified. It refused to elect a Rhee man as Lee's successor, instead chose Kim Sung Soo, 60, wealthy head of the anti-Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party and respected member of Seoul's Rotary Club...
...ended; a powerful tide of Argentine democracy suddenly welled up and threatened to swamp him. In the press,_in the street, in the universities, the voices of freedom stilled under the war-long state of siege now spoke up, loud & clear. Perón's reply was to arrest 1,000 leading Argentine liberals, conservatives and intellectuals. In the resulting outburst of public indignation, President Farrell was compelled to arrest Perón and free his opponents. Stripped of his titles, the colonel was carried off to prison on Martin Garcia Island. By all normal standards of Latin American...
...stooges. Congress voted him absolute powers over his 17 million people, including the right to jail them for "disrespect" to any official from President to dogcatcher; but Perón used the powers sparingly. When he switched constitutions so that he could run for reelection, it became necessary to arrest a few opponents; more often he bullied obstinate critics into fleeing across the river to Uruguay, where they lapsed into total ineffectiveness...
...months, Communist authorities kept the bishop under house arrest, unable to communicate with the priests in his charge. Then, last fortnight, apparently convinced that he would not apply for permission to leave, the Communists organized a mass meeting at which his "punishment" could be "popularly and unanimously demanded." The next day, soldiers marched the bishop through the streets before taking him off-presumably to Canton-to await trial. The usual mob of students was on hand with the usual mob clichés: "Down with Bishop Ford! Down with American imperialism...
...Frankfurt, Germany (a relay point for Prague's wires) suddenly noticed that Oatis wasn't answering queries. At A.P.'s request, Ambassador Ellis Briggs served on the Czech Foreign Minister a demand for information about Reporter Oatis. Next day, the Czechs replied: Oatis was under arrest for "activities hostile to the state," for trying to get "certain secret reports" and putting out "illegal press materials insulting the Czechoslovak republic." At midnight, while putting his car in the garage, he had been seized by three plainclothesmen who stepped out of the shadows. Simultaneously, a fourth employee vanished, leaving...