Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS treaty is the first concrete result of 18 years of effort by the United States to impose limits on the nuclear arms race. There is hope that it may lead to further measures to arrest and control the dangerous competition for increasingly destructive weapons...
ernandes, who has made a career of offering himself as his country's fastest-moving journalistic target, had been tipped off. He had already called a hasty press conference and told fellow newsmen the army was after him. "There is no arrest warrant," he told them. "The War Minister has no power to arrest me because I am not a military man." He was hauled off to a barracks, anyway, and placed under guard - out of sight, sound and print for six days...
...Minister to his field commanders-one a warning that army demands for a whopping pay raise, which the military has since received (see THE HEMISPHERE), were really a ruse to create a "prerevolutionary climate," the other an order to punish any armymen caught supporting a general then under arrest. "Rare are confidential, secret or reserved matters I am not informed of the very next day," Columnist Fernandes crowed...
...decision freeing Fernandes. The confident columnist had already bought his ticket back to Rio where he promptly called a press conference. "I will continue to publish any information of interest, be it of a military nature or not," he said. Then he sat down and wrote about his arrest and army interrogations. He was not about to forgive and forget. He called his story "Diary of an Act of Despotism...
Sheriff Warren Johnson was next on the witness stand. He reiterated the allegations made in the opening arguments of counsel, but he admitted never taking out a warrant. In fact, he declared, he had not taken out a warrant for anyone's arrest during his six years as Sheriff. He hadn't barged into Ware's home, he reported, but had been invited in. Anyway, he only wanted to arrest Ware for his own protection and the protection of society...