Word: arrests
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Although often derided by party compatriots as a mediocrity, Bulganin had a shrewd instinct for survival. In 1953 he joined the Presidium plot to arrest the hated secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, and two years later he backed Nikita Khrushchev's successful attempt to oust Georgi Malenkov as Premier. As a reward, Bulganin was given Malenkov'sjob...
Solzhenitsyn's description of his arrest and deportation adds some compelling new details to earlier accounts. After being charged with treason he was put in a cell with a pair of currency black-marketeers. Recognizing the author, one of the criminals expressed his dismay that Solzhenitsyn had not gone to Stockholm to collect his 70,000-ruble ($78,000) Nobel Prize in 1970. "You could have bought so many automobiles with that money!" Touched by the man's naive pity, Solzhenitsyn felt his first twinge of regret at having decided not to go to Sweden. Believing that...
...visions and capacities of Detroit's giants, yet Peterson printed Carmichael's tall talk with virtually no skepticism. He soon learned the dangers of reporting unconfirmed technical claims without any disclaimers. Last month the Dale bubble burst when the Dallas police issued a warrant for the arrest of Carmichael and her creative crew on charges of conspiracy to commit theft. They also filed charges accusing her of engaging in illegal deceptive trade practices. The National Observer reported these events in a sort of retraction in its Feb. 15 issue. The story conceded that Carmichael's car might...
...Guilty pleas keep the judicial system alive, if not exactly well. They dispose of more than 90% of urban criminal cases. But they also normally end a defendant's right to a constitutional challenge of his arrest or the evidence gathered for use against him. To protect that right, New York and California have both provided that even though a prisoner pleads guilty, he may still mount a constitutional attack with an appeal in state courts. But may that attack continue into federal courts via a habeas corpus petition? In a heroin possession case, a four-man minority argued...
Moroz has spent all but nine months of the last nine years in prison, since his first arrest in 1965, also on charges of anti Soviet propagands...