Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers and drummed out of the National Liberation Front, which he once headed. But he was permitted to retire quietly to his villa in Kouba, outside Algiers, thereby joining the ranks of Ben Bella's other muffled but unharmed opponents, such as Mohammed Boudiaf, who is under house arrest, and ex-Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who has quit politics to resume his career as a druggist...
Ward's hasty arrest and trial raised the troubling implication that he was prosecuted mainly because he threatened the existence of the government. Under oath, Call Girl Ronna Ricardo said that the police had put her up to making damaging false statements about Ward. To a newspaper reporter last week, Prostitute Vickie Barrett admitted that she had perjured herself when she claimed on the stand that she had whipped men for money in Ward's flat; later she denied her denial...
...power than most Afro-Asian revolutionary leaders. His opposition ranges from National Assembly Speaker Ferhat Abbas, who complains that socialism is coming too swiftly, to Marxist Theoretician Mohammed Boudiaf, who complains that socialism is not coming quickly enough. Boudiaf and three of his supporters have been under house arrest since June, and another opponent, Mohammed Khider, has been exiled. At one time Ben Bella seemed threatened by shadowy, ascetic Colonel Houari Boumedienne; as Defense Minister and army chief, he has so much power that he probably could take over. Apparently, he is content to work in the background, has kept...
...obstructing justice," the charge being based upon a boycott they organized against the Carl Smith Grocery. Smith was on the jury that heard a suit brought by Charlie Ware, a Negro, against Sheriff Warren Johnson, alleging Johnson had violated Ware's constitutional rights by shooting him while under arrest. (Ware, of course, lost the case.) The government claimed the boycott was in "retaliation" for Smith's vote. The six other leaders were cited for perjury before the grand jury in testimony about the boycott...
Both sides closed the case, the defense again moving for a directed verdict which was denied. The law was argued to the court, with the State concentrating on the question of how to prove drunkenness and the defense contending the arrest without a warrant was illegal, as long as the offense was not committed in the presence of an officer. The defense further argued that the evidence presented was circumstantial, and that at most the State had made out a case for assault with no grounds provided for conviction for attempted murder...