Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grenadier Guards, in which Mutesa is an honorary captain) and drove off in his black limousine. He and Governor Cohen talked for two hours. The interview was not a success. Out stalked the governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda and to stay out for the rest of his life. He was hustled to Entebbe airport, bundled aboard a waiting R.A.F. transport plane and flown directly to London. No one bothered to tell his wife and four-year-old child...
Unprecedented as it was to arrest a former chief of state and then to put him under heavy bond besides, there was little doubt that Prío had openly courted trouble. Ever since Dictator Fulgencio Batista booted him out of Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four...
...aside. When the blow fell last week he had just returned from a meeting of opposition leaders in Mexico at which plans for an uprising were reportedly discussed. Prío, whose democratic but graft-ridden government collapsed in a few hours in March 1952, seemed angriest that his arrest would give "comfort and satisfaction to a dictator." If brought to trial and convicted, he could be fined $10,000 or jailed for five years, or both...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...
...Arrest after arrest followed in the next few weeks, as the girls accused people at random during their hysterical trances. At first the victims were generally people of eccentric habits--many were not church members and the Puritan community had small sympathy for them. But as the craze spread, no one seemed safe from accusation. Even a minister, the Reverend George Burroughs, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1670 and the former pastor of the Salem church, was seized. Soon scores of persons were under suspicion and no end was in sight. The matter became the concern...