Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preventive Medicine. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, when a police recruit was asked, during a first aid test, "How would you arrest a hemorrhage?" he answered: "I would put my hand on his shoulder and warn and caution...
Since the other spy was afraid to testify in court against Abel, the best the FBI could do was ask the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrest Abel as a deportable alien. Then came a break. In his room, when seized, Abel had plenty of incriminating evidence-cipher pads. 18 microfilms, phony birth certificates-to help convict him for espionage four months later. Sentence: a $3,000 fine, 30 years...
...decision. The four dissenting justices (William Brennan, Hugo Black, William Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren) agreed with Abel's court-appointed lawyer that the FBI had no right to use for criminal prosecution the evidence that was seized in the course of Immigration's "administrative" arrest (one not ordered by a court warrant). In his dissent. Justice Brennan charged violation of the spy's Fourth Amendment protections from "unreasonable searches and seizures." But the court majority reviewed each step of the case in a 24-page decision, found, as Justice Felix Frankfurter put it, that it indicated...
...situation is completely under control," said Verwoerd soothingly, but he acted like a man who feared imminent revolution on a national scale. Before dawn on Wednesday, even before the emergency declaration was fully in effect, his detectives fanned out in simultaneous raids throughout the nation to arrest scores of native leaders and suspected troublemakers. Chief Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress and a moderate who had now joined the radicals in advocating pass-burning, was awakened and hauled away at 2 a.m.; soon the police were picking up "dangerous" whites as well, including all the top leaders...
...week's end came the first giving of ground. South Africa's commissioner of police curtly announced that to relieve the "tremendous tension," police would no longer ask Africans to show-or arrest them for failure to carry-the hated passbooks. It represented the first major retreat by the government since the Nationalists won power at the polls twelve years ago. But just when everyone was about to credit Verwoerd's administration with coming to its senses, Defense Minister Francois Erasmus said that the police decision was "strictly temporary" until the "situation quieted." South Africa...