Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speedy Verdict. Apparently expecting the police to come for him, Martinis did not resist arrest, but at the police station he sullenly refused to take a drunkometer test. When two news photographers came into the room, Martinis suddenly went wild. He grabbed a photographer by the throat, clawed and kicked at the cops struggling to pull him away, bit a cop's finger. He stopped fighting only after policemen snagged him by his long black hair, bloodied his nose and clamped handcuffs on his wrists. "Martinis was like a mad dog," said Journal-American Photographer Seymour Zee, who witnessed...
...only ?voice to demand a showdown with the government's foes. She called her own husband "cowardly" for recommending a compromise with the Binh Xuyen gangsters. Once, arranging a demonstration against them, she was surrounded by a hostile crowd of Binh Xuyen. She jumped into her car, cried, "Arrest me, if you can!" and drove straight through the ring of tommy-gun-toting toughs. Finally, the family shipped her out to a convent in Hong Kong to keep her quiet during a period of attempted conciliation. "It was just like the Middle Ages," she says, "but that's where...
Last week on the day of the electoral college vote, the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange posted its biggest trading day in history. Soon after, the government arranged to release 350 political and labor union prisoners, and even freed deposed President Frondizi from house arrest...
...wing bunch, who tend to consider Goulart something of a kindred spirit. From Rio's Sergeants' Club came accusations that the generals wanted to overthrow the President. A pair of oratorical army sergeants were put in jail for tirades against the officers. When a marine sergeant was arrested for similar talk, 100 of his comrades, protesting his arrest, had to be marched off to the stockade...
...knock on the door came shortly after midnight, but Brazilian Journalist Helio Fernandes was not surprised to find the three army officers standing in the hall. "You are under arrest," said the captain in charge. Fernandes asked to see the warrant. The captain's only reply was: "This is the army...