Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hamstrung by the arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
...Poirier, Haiti's highest prelate, who is also French-born and white, this was too much. He notified parish priests up and down the island of the expulsions, followed with a denunciation of the government's action. Duvalier retaliated with a warrant for the archbishop's arrest for violating the 1860 Haiti-Vatican Concordat, which binds priests "to do nothing against the interests of the republic...
Duvalier had overreached himself; as the Vatican hinted at automatic excommunication and Catholic Haiti throbbed with unrest, the President backed off. At week's end the regime announced "the arrest is halted'' but blustered that "the President will not permit anyone to discredit the government...
Stolen Papers. It was two days after McCuistion's disappearance before NATO headquarters got interested. When Brigadier General Paul Hollister, NATO chief of staff in Izmir, protested to Turkish authorities, Tough Cop Emrealp at first denied knowledge of McCuistion's arrest. Finally the Turks agreed to show McCuistion and King to a U.S. colonel-who reported that both men were "in bad shape." It took ten more days for NATO to learn of the charges against the four sergeants, and by this time NATO officers also discovered that someone had stolen McCuistion's finance records from...
...pilot, and carrying nine anti-Castro rebels. From near by, Castro himself happily joined the cries of "Down with Fidel!"-it was such a well-baited trap. As soon as the rifles, ammunition, hand grenades and submachine guns were unloaded, Morgan's men clapped the dumfounded invaders under arrest. In a flurry of gunfire from the plane, two of the invaders and two of Morgan's men were killed...