Word: arrests
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...Valley Forge and Franklin D. Roosevelt and coveys of support vessels toward the Dominican coast. Aboard the Valley Forge were 1,800 marines, with helicopters to land them on Dominican soil. At the airbase near the inland Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded 20 pilots at San Isidro, the main airbase in Ciudad Trujillo, to fly to Santiago...
...went the newest chapter in the great Beria whodunit. Officially, the Kremlin announced six months after his arrest in 1953 that he had been secretly tried and executed for murder, espionage, treason, sabotage, and for good measure, perversion. Ever since, there have been many, often conflicting, accounts of Beria's real end. The latest account, leaked in Warsaw last week by Polish delegates back from the 22nd Party Congress in Moscow, was the most detailed version to date and, said they, was told by Khrushchev himself at a glittering champagne party...
Partial Reward. In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward went before the OAS Sanctions Committee. Despite reservations expressed in an OAS Human Rights Commission report (e.g., "the serious problem that has arisen as a result of the arrest and disappearance of several persons"), said Woodward, democracy was looking up in Trujilloland. "A vigorous political opposition acts openly, opposition newspapers circulate, key figures closely associated with the former regime have departed." The U.S. therefore recommended, he said, that sanctions prohibiting the export of petroleum products and trucks to the Dominican Republic be lifted. Remaining economic...
Other recent speech cancellations have also provoked protest. Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim movement, was prohibited from speaking on the Queens College campus; Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the National Review; and Brooklyn College delayed the speech of State Assemblyman Mark Lane, whose arrest as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi reportedly cast doubts over the propriety of his speaking under college auspices...
...same time, Nasser arrested leading army officers, including some close to U.A.R. commander in chief, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, an old friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo...