Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss King termed Weaver's arrest part of a "purge" of rights workers by the Canton authorities. She noted that every one of the 20-odd CORE and SNCC workers in Canton had been jailed since Jan. 22 on charges varying from publishing libel to burning trash without a permit. Ball in every case was very high, she said. For disturbing the peace...
Died. Ewald Peters, 49, West Germany's chief of personal security, responsible for the safety of Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard from 1960 until his arrest, fortnight ago, on charges of having participated in mass executions of Jews in the Ukraine in 1942 and 1943; by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in a Bonn prison cell. In hearings after his arrest and in letters he left behind, Peters repeatedly claimed innocence; state prosecutors have now marked the case "closed...
After Weaver's first arrest on Dec. 26, the Dunster Senior Common Room raised $1000 to ball him out of the Jackson, Miss., jail. "This time, since the trial is set for next Monday, it would seem that we can be most helpful by providing a good lawyer rather than ball," Pappenheimer said yesterday...
...Tran Thien Khiem, commanding the 3rd Corps troops around Saigon. Four of Khiem's battalions had been readied for a strike against the Viet Cong, were used instead against Minh & Co. Nine hours after Minh had refused Khanh's request to break with France, he was under arrest...
Wallace was arrested on July 28 after an encounter with a Farmville policeman in a courthouse corridor. Four misdemeanor charges were filed against the law student, and he was also charged with felonious assault and resisting arrest...