Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university must be aware of the impossibility of their demand on Hall. It appears to be a subterfuge," she charged. She referred to his exclusion on the basis of his not being registered, but pointed out that registration would bring on his arrest. Under Washington law, it is a felony to be a Communist, said Miss Turner...
...said that President Diem had been in his district: "Mr. Government went through here once with many soldiers around him, but I couldn't see his face." Yet the absence of the army is most often counted a blessing. When troops arrive, they check identity papers, impose curfews, arrest people suspected of helping the Reds. And when the army opens a local offensive against the guerrillas, who infiltrate everywhere, its fire is bound to be indiscriminate. "I think the Viet Cong have done many wrong things," said one delta peasant, "but we dread the cannon shells of the army...
What alarmed U.N. officials most was a report that the unruly soldiers might regroup and head back toward Stanleyville. Word now had reached the maraud ers that their erstwhile chief, Antoine Gizenga. was under house arrest by Adoula's Central Government forces; the unpredictable soldiers just might decide to wage a last-ditch battle on his behalf. In case they did, a U.N. airplane flew up to Stanleyville to transfer Gizenga to Leopoldville. There the rebel was not yet under formal arrest; for the moment he was living under guard in an apartment at U.N. headquarters in the capital...
...argues that the project was a bad one; indeed, his successor in the Plan Organization had promptly renewed the contract with Lilienthal when Ebtehaj resigned after an argument with the Cabinet. Moreover, at the time of Ebtehaj's arrest, no high official seemed prepared to admit responsibility for it; the Minister of Justice was ill and away from his office; the public prosecutor was nowhere to be found; Premier Ali Amini claimed he knew nothing of the case...
...visit the Council of State hostages imprisoned at the airfield. He offered a deal: they could have the government back if they kept him on as Armed Forces Secretary. As he pleaded, a group of his fellow officers marched into the room, told him that he was "under arrest." "Wait," he said, but there was no waiting. Stripped of sidearms, he was marched off and imprisoned...