Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kuchel did not learn of the accusation until October, when his Los Angeles office came into possession of a copy of the affidavit. The Senator denounced the document as "a monstrous falsehood," demanded an investigation by Los Angeles police. They reported that they had no record of any such arrest. Neither did the FBI, said Director J. Edgar Hoover in a personal letter to Kuchel. Kuchel then demanded criminal proceedings, which resulted in last week's indictments...
...solution must be found. Wider use of court injunctions is part of the answer. Congress should pass an anti-lynching law. The FBI has not begun to use its preventive powers. If federal agents had used their arrest powers in Marion, against the club-swinging troopers, Jackson would never have been shot. Finally the President has the power (Sections 332 and 333, Title 10) to establish a special police force to protect Negroes and civil rights workers...
...Bernstein, attorney for COFO, went to the Pike County jail shortly after the arrest and was reportedly beaten by jailer Ray Pound and two or three other...
...Marion, three days after King's departure, that some of the worst civil rights violence in months broke out. About 400 Negroes started to march from the Zion Methodist Church to the town jail, protesting the arrest of a fellow worker. Waiting outside the church were eight Marion cops, 50 state troopers, a bunch of redneck bums-and Selma's Sheriff Clark, in civilian clothes but carrying a billy club...
Czechoslovakia (9,000,000 Catholics) has plenty of hard-line Stalinists in government and an old anticlerical tradition. Churches are empty and in poor repair; most of the dioceses are without bishops; priests are still arrested for anti-regime activities. But even here the church's prospects are improving. President Antonin Novotny is eager to touch up the Czech image in the West, and his government was clearly embarrassed when the Pope bestowed a red hat on Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran, now under house arrest. Czech exiles in Rome are preparing Beran's quarters...