Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powerless to Prevent. Japan's once-dreaded police today are circumscribed by so many restrictions, imposed in the name of civil rights, that they cannot even arrest a drunk until he hits someone. More than 450 gangs (with a membership of 12,000) roam the streets of Tokyo, and the police say they are powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take...
...effort against the bands of stealthy racists who have rocked the South with 83 bombs, seven of them against Jewish institutions, since the Supreme Court's school decision four years ago. Ex-Convict Richard Bowling, 26, tagged by police as the ringleader of the indicted men, blamed his arrest on "Jewish-Communist pressure groups...
...cardinals into the conclave enclosure as aides. Only two cardinals are expected to be absent when the conclave begins this week. Both Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, Primate of Yugoslavia, and Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, will stay away from Rome for the same good reason: Stepinac is under house arrest, Mindszenty a refugee in the U.S. legation in Budapest. And even if they could get to Rome, their governments would deny them reentry...
Casehardened. In Gateshead, England, after his arrest for drunken driving, James Scott admitted under oath that he had downed 13 pints of beer on the night he was arrested, argued that "it would take 15 pints to put me under the influence," was acquitted when a police sergeant testified that Scott was "well used to taking drink...
...Nashville, Gov. Frank Clement termed the blasting "a cowardly act" and offered a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of persons responsible...