Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police expect occasional resistance from persons under arrest-but nothing like this. "The police cannot fight crime and the public at the same time." protests New York Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy. And New York Magistrate Aaron Goldstein says in shocked bewilderment: "I don't know what kind of animals we have in this town. Is there no respect? Is there no decency...
Three hours later, at 4 a.m., eight police cars howled up to Lott's apartment in Brasilia, and a colonel banged on the door, shouting that the marshal was under arrest. "Tell the colonel that he knows only an officer of my own rank can arrest me," said Lott, and went back to sleep. Back came a field marshal (Brazil has 36) to toss Lott into a damp, stone walled dungeon beneath the Fortress of Laje, a turret-topped rock jutting above the waters of Rio Bay. On Denys' orders, more than 100 army officers, loyal to Lott...
...Grudge. It was the same old Jomo. The spade beard was mottled with grey, but the clothes that he wears like a uniform-brown leather jacket, baggy corduroy trousers, red tie-were the same as the clothes he wore at the time of his arrest by the British in 1952. Now as then, he denies complicity in the Mau Mau terror which cost the lives of more than 13,000. Says Kenyatta: "I have never been a violent man. My whole life has been antiviolence." As for the eight years of detention, partly spent at remote Lodwar, where...
...Unless means are found to arrest or reverse the aging process." says Frey, "we may have to depend on the arrival of another glacier to produce a fresh crop...
...this burlesque by C. Y. Lee, the Chinese-American author of The Flower Drum Song. Lee's view is light, slight and frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy; the reader feels Mah could equally well be blundering through the tumultuous 13th century China described in the picaresque classic, Flower...