Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sumter, S.C., local and state police mustered in regimental proportions to block the path of angry Negro students at Morris College (Baptist) who intended to march downtown protesting the earlier arrest of seven students and one faculty member. After a tense impasse when patrol cars twice stopped the marchers at campus gates, the students dispersed...
...Demands. His heavy jaw jutting like one of Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
...opoldville saloon two years ago, later flitted off to Prague's Institute for African Studies. His party won 13 Parliament seats in last year's election. He tossed them to Lumumba, and Lumumba made him Vice Premier. Since shortly after his boss's arrest last December, Gizenga has run the show from the Eastern province river capital of Stanleyville (and to one recent visitor, he remarked that he saw "no reason for a change" even if Lumumba were released). He keeps Lumumba's younger brother Louis close by for prestige purposes, but his closest ties...
...meaning, abstentions can speak as loudly as an electoral landslide. One party showed ominous strength, though it won no seats at all. It was the National Front, a loose, left-wing coalition that rallies behind old Mohammed Mossadegh, the Red-lining former Premier who has lived under tacit house arrest since leaving prison in 1956. Convinced that the election would be fraudulent, the National Front ordered it boycotted. And last week the Front was taking credit for the fact that of 600,000 eligible voters in the capital city of Teheran, only 65,000 went to the polls...
...wide range of crimes, and have drawn penalties ranging from a few years to life imprisonment. Nevertheless, most of them share one common characteristic: they are not caught on the first offense, and if they were ever released, they will offend again. A large portion of prisoners regard arrest as simply "bad luck," rather than the inevitable, or even probable, consequence of crime, and the case of prison life, together with the difficulty to finding honest employment upon release, all tend to remove any reservations a convict might have about offending again...