Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberalization" as a cultural safety valve, they also realize that in the current Sino-Soviet ideological fracas, it is necessary to impose a certain amount of discipline in order to close ranks behind Moscow. Anxious to avoid the stigma of Stalinism, the satellite governments have for the present forsworn arrest and imprisonment in favor of less drastic measures, such as "educational" discussions of "erroneous views." Items...
...University would take a different attitude, however, toward the arrest of students working on the PBH project at Miles College, Birmingham, Ala. These students, said Monro, "have a connection" with the University, since their work is sponsored by a "semi-official organization...
...excessive speed." In 1919, two reporters died in crashes while trying desperately to keep up with Wilson's car. In 1921, state cops clocked Warren G. Harding's car at 38 m.p.h. as it zipped through Hyattsville, Md. The speed limit was 15 m.p.h., but no arrest was made. After he left office, Harry Truman was stopped for cutting in front of a patrol car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And Dwight Eisenhower used to be in such a hurry to get from Washington to his Gettysburg farm that reporters insisted they sometimes hit 100 m.p.h. on narrow Maryland...
They began raising it 40 hours later, when three Negro youths were arrested for tossing Molotov cocktails and paint-filled light bulbs at two Burns-for-Governor headquarters. Crowds of Negro students began massing outside their schools, and Burns ordered police to "disperse them or arrest them." To their credit, the cops acted with restraint. Only when the kids scattered and reassembled downtown did the paddy wagons roll up and the arrests begin. After scores of screaming, singing, arm-flailing youngsters were hauled off, the rest left. Soon minor violence, mostly rock throwing at passing cars, broke out over...
Jango Goulart proved their main point. All 73 of the retired soldiers were put under ten days' military arrest...