Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under Greek law you cannot make an arrest at a home during the hours of darkness...
...Besides the 'official' or constant contributions, there are also extraordinary ones to be paid. . . . 'Constructing fences payment' is a polite term for kidnaping for ransom. If a peasant is unlucky, the Fire Society can easily arrest him on a charge of 'collaborating with bandits.' If he is clever and rich enough to send in some $200,000 CN or $300,000 CN, he becomes a 'repented' good citizen. Otherwise, his charge will change from collaboration to 'being a bandit'-and the sentence is death...
...made a similar arrest some time in September 1943 at Guadalcanal, while a sentry aboard ship. A sailor was celebrating the discovery of some torpedo juice (190 proof) and using an LCV for a taxi...
While the injured were being carried out, the police calmly proceeded to arrest the "disturbers of peace" pointed out to them by the Communists...
...other deputies appeared in the window of the hotel overlooking the square, a tremendous cheer went up from the crowd that had gathered there. But this was a short-lived victory, too. The police colonel spoke again: "I warn you, if you appear anywhere in public, I'll arrest you for attempting to incite a riot...