Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terror. Now, with the army under direct attack and with military coups exploding around the Caribbean, Betancourt decided to crack down on the Reds once and for all. He suspended the constitutional immunity of 23 Communist and Castroite Congressmen suspected of being the brains behind the F.A.L.N., ordered their arrest and the roundup of other Red leaders in Venezuela. Convoys of battle-ready infantrymen and paratroopers poured into Caracas to reinforce the police. At week's end six of the 23 Congressmen had been arrested and turned over to the military for trial; another 200 far leftist leaders were...
...students have been in jail since their arrest during a protest march Aug. 8. Four of them--Perdew, Ralph Allen, Don Harris and Zev Aelony--have been charged with incitement to insurrection, a capital offense in Georgia. The other two, Thomas McDaniel and Sallie Mae Durham, are being held on lesser charges. All the students except Aelony, a member of CORE, are workers for the Student Non-Violent coordinating Committee...
...Allen said, "I was born and raised there (Farmville) and I know everybody. County Judge Hay and prosecuting attorney Watkins are not men likely to be prejudiced. Now, according to Judge Hay's remarks on the case, the boy got into a fight with a police officer and resisted arrest. This is a serious charge in any state. Of course, he's a young boy, and his youth is in his favor...
...last night's meeting, John Hartman '64, who has received several letters from Perdew since his arrest, described the case. He asserted that it is "symbolic of the violence and the threat of death for civil rights workers in southwest Georgia...
...House Committee set a goal of $6000 to be raised within the next few weeks for Perdew's defense. The drive will include a letter-writing campaign directed to Georgia and Federal officials, and of a petitions protesting Perdew's arrest...