Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President urged Congress not to "arrest the pace of progress," but he outlined little new domestic legislation. On Vietnam, he pledge merely to "stand firm." "The question is whether we can carry on when [the dangers] seem obscure and distant," he said...
Actually, in Powell's case, there is a good chance that the courts will do the job of imposing punishment. New York District Attorney Frank Hogen is presently investigating Powell's case and may take action that would lead to Powell's extradition and arrest...
Nkrumah's years of misrule now fully exposed by Ghana's well-entrenched new military government, many Guinean officials consider his presence a distinct liability. As a result, he has been elbowed out of the political limelight; he is now kept under virtual house arrest in his high-walled villa. Nearly a dozen of his bodyguards have deserted and crossed the border to Sierra Leone to start a new life. His Egyptian wife Fathia, whom he shelved years ago for more comely playmates, has taken refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three...
...nose to the selfsame love. On this slender plot line, the playwright has hung some Simon-pure comedy of the inane, the illogical and the absurd. His natively quirky touch is evident when Benjamin attempts to escort the girl bedward with the line, "This is a citizen's arrest." But every so often the gags are too simple Simon...
Ethical Example. Unlike other police, C.D. men win points for making as few arrests as possible. To give errants every possible chance, a C.D. man first politely announces: "You are interfering with the free movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Please move." (Pause.) "Will you move?" Step 2: the resister is told that his act violates Section 406 of the Pennsylvania penal code and "amounts to disorderly conduct." Once more he is asked, "Will you move?" Step 3: "You are now under arrest. Will you walk to the emergency patrol wagon?" Step 4: "Do you want to be carried...