Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson's summation: "The big economic problem ahead for the U.S. is to arrest the drift and assure the steady growth of our economy. During the 20 years of Democratic government, the country made big strides toward protecting itself against another terrible depression...
...France seethed with indignant fascination last week as the arrest of one Communist-hunting policeman mush roomed into a major scandal involving high government servants, top state secrets and espionage. While Premier Pierre Mendès-France labored across the channel at the London Conference, a dizzying succession of arrests, disclosures and confessions revealed that vital secrets of France's National Defense Committee had methodically leaked to the Communists. There were suggestions that the secrets had been going to other foreign powers as well. The permanent secretary-general of the Defense Committee was indicted for negligence...
...Forgive Me." As more than a week passed without an arrest, press and politicians of the right wing cried for action and implied that Mendès-France and his ministers were powerless or afraid to act. If the Dides affaire was not to blossom into a full-scale threat to the regime's existence, Mitterrand and his police needed more-facts and arrests. One morning last week, the police rocked the country with two arrests. Jailed as the men who leaked from the Defense Committee were René Turpin, 42, and Roger Labrusse, 40, both ardent leftists...
...youth is being held at the Cambridge police department, where charges of attempted larceny and possession of a switch blade knife will probably be made against him. Cambridge police officers Lee O. Davenport and William Killion made the arrest...
...down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into the army. Last week, fearing further inflationary walkouts, he decreed a mild form of martial law that empowers the government to arrest its opponents, unless they are Congressmen...