Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter Rickett was known in Peking before his arrest as a fairly evenminded liberal. He talks today as an extreme liberal of the mid-'40s would have talked. He is driven to rationalize everything that the Communists do or say, including what the Communists did to him, and to assume that whatever the U.S. does is questionable and probably wrong. Rickett is, beyond all else, the ultimate example of what can happen to a non-Communist who does not believe or ceases to believe that Communism in itself is evil. He has made his personal accommodation with...
...after four years of imprisonment that he considered his jailer right and his own country wrong. When he first went to Peking in 1948, he thought the Communists were wrong; he thought that the Russians were coming down into China, that the U.S. should stop them. "After my arrest, I came to realize that the Chinese had a right to run their own country any way they wanted to run it. The new China exists. It is there, and it is a fact. No matter how we feel about it, we have to live with...
Seven days after the triumphal signing, Nasser faced a cheering mob in Alexandria. As he rose to make his speech a man stood up in the audience and fired eight shots at him. Nasser remained standing and all shots missed. His first cry was, "Arrest that man." Then he stepped to the microphone: "Oh, my men, stand in your places. Oh, free men, stand. I revolted for your sake. I taught you dignity and self-respect. Oh, my citizens, my men, I brought to this country dignity and freedom, and I fought for your sons. Oh, free men, stand...
Democrats charged that the pre-election arrest of some of their members amounted to intimidation. On election day itself, observers of the Geneva Truce Commission, consisting of Canada plus suspicious representatives from neutralist India and Communist Poland, made spot checks, found no irregularity. The only violence stained not the Sangkum, but the Democratic Party with blood-a Sangkum Party chauffeur was murdered...
...city room. By last week, as a result of Bulldog Brunt's smart reporting and shrewd detective work, the death of Doris Oestreicher was big news on Page One of many a big-city paper, and three people, including Doris Oestreicher's mother, were under arrest for suspected abortion...