Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committed in resisting or avoiding arrest, or escaping from legal custody...
...Communism generally" (TIME, Dec. 24). Sentenced to three years' hard labor, Djilas, 46 and in good health, had every prospect of surviving his sentence, re-entering Yugoslav politics and even in time becoming one of the challengers for the mantle of the 64-year-old Tito. Since his arrest Djilas' following has grown. Yugoslav peasants, confronted with rising prices, have been heard saying: "Djilas was right." But last week it was learned that the hands of Prisoner 6880 (Djilas) in Mitrovica's Block 2 were turning black and his knee joints stiffening as a result of cold...
Colonel Serraj was not to be disposed of so easily. Rallying his supporters, Serraj last week massed armored units outside Damascus, threatened to seize the capital and arrest his opponents. At this news President Kuwatly was afflicted with a malaise so severe that he felt obliged to take to bed. This left matters in the hands of General Nizam el Din, who hastily deployed his artillery commander to cover the approaches to Damascus, and warned that he would meet any further tank movements with shellfire...
...doctors). Ana Pauker lost power in Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign, but, unlike 250 Zionist leaders still in Rumanian jails, says Dr. Cohen, escaped prison because she placed diaries full of compromising details in a place of safekeeping in Switzerland with instructions that they be published on her arrest or sudden death...
...slate as the "P for Pooley ticket". Pooley's Herald-Post attacked Mayor Rogers' record with Page One "photographic editorials" showing potholed pavements and exposed water lines. In their eagerness to clear or smear the city administration, the papers even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such big, bold, efficient lawmen...