Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent step-up in non-violent demonstrations, including last week a prayer meeting in McComb, Miss., which resulted in the arrest of 114 students, has greatly depleted SNCC's resources. It now has 17 full-time people in the field, and $1000 in the bank, according to Paul Potter, National Affairs vice-President...
Isoniazid is a pill made from two ingredients: a form of isonicotinic acid, plus hydrazine, a liquid that has also been used for rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half...
...five--four 18-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl--were each convicted on two counts of a new Mississippi anti-integration law which permits arrest of anyone whose presence might incite others to breach of peace...
...camps are mainly intended as relocation centers for the 10,000 East Germans who are under arrest be cause they cannot be trusted to remain in the workers' paradise. The idea is to move them to a safe distance from the sealed frontier in Berlin or other areas bordering the West. Some were actually caught in the act of fleeing; others are merely suspected of planning to flee, or "spreading unrest." For all, the penalty is swift deportation to the new camps in the interior, where "work rehabilitation" means sweating in a quarry or a mine from...
...trouble, armed his men with a helicopter, dogs, and an armored car. As if to symbolize how most white people felt, a pretty drum majorette furiously attacked a sign-toting segregationist with her baton. The cops were so watchful that on the opening day of school they moved to arrest two loitering men who turned out to be FBI agents. The police did pull in six demonstrators, who got sentences of 30 to 60 days that were reduced, when the excitement subsided, to nothing in the case of four teenagers...