Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, who heard the case in Washington, acknowledged the military's right to try a civilian for his military crimes, but questioned its authority to arrest a civilian, much less abduct him to a foreign country. Then Judge Holtzoff ruled that a writ of habeas corpus should be issued. The Air Force reluctantly brought its prisoner home for a court hearing scheduled for next week...
...chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
Appointed a Senator by the Shah, Zahedi held automatic immunity from arrest. In October 1952, Mossadegh dissolved the whole Senate, apparently in order to nab Zahedi. Under arrest, the general was still a nuisance; he roamed his old haunts at the Interior Ministry and police headquarters, issuing orders and communiques. After a month of it, Mossadegh set him free...
...Life. In Hoboken, N.J., when police came to arrest James Shea, 59, for drunkenness, they learned from his wife Maria that during the last five years he had spoon-fed whisky to his three pet mongrels, incited them to bite her more than 200 times...
...learned the Lay of the Last Minstrel by heart before he was twelve." He could also recite huge chunks of Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante and Keats, could play the "immortal game" of chess in his head, learned to write at the rate of 50 words a minute. Not even his arrest in Austria as an enemy alien during World War I could keep him from his typewriter. "Military fatheads," declared Richards-Hamilton, "might come and go, but Billy Bunter went on forever...