Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take place under the "Damocles sword" of the special safe-conduct law that was enacted-in response to Ulbricht's own requests-by the West German Parliament two weeks ago in order to permit Communist speakers to attend the second debate in West Germany without fear of arrest. Ulbricht's theme was amplified by his chief propagandist, Albert Norden. Norden demanded that the "monstrous" safe-conduct be repealed, that the Social Democrats break with the Christian Democrats on all policy relating to Ulbricht's regime and unilaterally recognize East Germany. Then, said Norden, the debates might take...
...crux of the case involves an important conflict of loyalties. Should a reporter reveal the names of people when they could lead to the arrest of a criminal, or should he protect his sources and be prepared to go to jail. Miss Buchanan faces a six-month jail term and a fine...
Police disperse pickets when Maxwell Taylor visits Lowell House and arrest four Harvard students during an unsuccessful sit-in at the Boston Army Base. Twenty-three professors participate in a "speak-out" designed to keep the spirit of dissent alive. Two thousand dissenters march in Boston Common...
...days after their arrest, Kimba and the other three, their bodies badly bruised and their wrists painfully bound, were hauled before a military tribunal. As a noisy throng looked on, the tribunal gave each a brief hearing; each denied any intention of killing Mobutu and his colleagues. The court deliberated six minutes before finding them guilty and sentencing them to be hanged -36 hours later-in the public square. Appeals for clemency from the diplomatic corps were turned down...
...Ronald Long, former president of the English Law Society, a six-lawyer committee called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has invited any Briton to claim damages for anything from arson to assault to injuries incurred while helping the police or trying to make a citizen's arrest...