Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace went to Farmville, Va., July 23, and became involved in an argument with a policeman in the courthouse adjoining the jail. Wallace allegedly resisted arrest, and a scuffle developed in the sheriff's office when five officers tried to serve the warrant...
Goulart managed to wangle an invitation for Tito to visit the booming inland city of Belo Horizonte. But that, too, was canceled in disgust by the governor of Minas Gerais state when he heard that Yugoslav security men insisted on the arrest of every Serbian and Croatian refugee in town. In desperation, Goulart wound up driving Tito 130 sweltering miles to the raw and sprawling town of Goiania, a must on nobody's list-only to be greeted by a row of grim, silent priests, each holding a crucifix wrapped in black crape...
About 60 callers complained to Channel 4's harried switchboard operator, beginning after the Marseillaise was suspiciously sung shortly after Peter Lorre's arrest. Channel 4 has not yet decided whether Sam will play it again in the near future...
...Wallace was undaunted. He would, he still insisted, bar the way to the Negro students; apparently he wanted to force federal marshals to arrest him and haul him off to jail. To be sure, his action might result in some bloodletting, but there seemed plenty of political profits ready for reaping...
...longer did landlords transport villagers to the polls in trucks, with their prepaid votes in hand. For the first time in a parliamentary election, veiled women in wrap-around chadors lined up with the menfolk at polling booths. Although the Shah put anti-reform Moslem mullahs (priests) under house arrest, barred political rallies, and closed up 75 Teheran dailies and weeklies, his most vociferous critics agreed that the crackdown was unnecessary...