Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They hauled the commander of an artillery group out of bed, told him to gather a score of trustworthy men and arrest Lacerda at 6:15 a.m. as he began an official visit to a state hospital near Rio. If Lacerda resisted, shoot to kill-without fear of consequences. If taken alive, Lacerda supposedly was to be bundled aboard a plane at Rio's International Galeao Airport and flown to a secret destination. The artillery officer refused, saying that he needed a written order from his commander. Pinheiro and Mafra next went to the commander of a paratroop regiment...
Optional Midden. ABC's Arrest and Trial has laid an egg with two yolks. Something unique in television, it is a 90-minute double show in which Flatfoot Ben Gazzara has roughly 45 minutes to arrest someone, then Lawyer Chuck Connors spends the remainder of the time preparing and presenting the defense case. The whole is encased in a thin shell of phony dialogue and dramaturgy. Says the defense counsel to the judge: "I ask the court's indulgence while I present the schizoid face of forensic analysis." The judge might have to sit still, but viewers have...
...several revolutionary "chiefs" who have been elbowed aside by the strongman. A dreamy Marxist, Aït Ahmed, 37, opposed Ben Bella's outlawing the Communist Party last year. Then last June, on the floor of the National Assembly, Aït Ahmed denounced the government's arrest of an independent chief and Ben Bella critic, leftist Mohammed Boudiaf. Repairing to his Kabylia village of Michelet, Aït Ahmed formed a tiny, clandestine party, the Front of Socialist Forces. With hardly any difficulty, the F.S.F. convinced over half the voters in Kabylia to boycott last month...
...Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Beran chose to battle his Communist overlords rather than negotiate with them after the Reds took over in 1948. He publicly protested the seizure of church property, forbade his clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the new regime, and eventually was put under house arrest. One day in 1949 Justice Minister Alexei Cepicka visited the archiepiscopal palace, hoping to bully him into submission. In answer, Beran went to a closet, picked up a bundle of ragged clothes that he had worn at Dachau, said "Let's go." He was hustled out of public view...
...legal action seeks the release of Perdew, Don Harris, Ralph Allen and Thomas McDaniel, who have been held in Sumter County jail since their arrest Aug. 8. The four are workers for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A fifth SNCC worker, Sallie Mae Durham, was turned over to juvenile authorities when she was discovered...