Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain, where Parliament recently passed emergency legislation out lawing the I.R.A. throughout the country and permitting authorities to arrest I.R.A. suspects without warrant, a newly formed police squad made its first significant headway against I.R.A. bomb units. Police arrested eleven suspects who were accused of involvement in the October bombing of a Guildford pub in which five died; six of those arrested were charged with murder. Of the five I.R.A. terrorist cells that the British believe are operating in England-two in London and three in the Midlands cities of Birmingham, Luton and Coventry -authorities think that one and perhaps...
...government and a conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, Portugal before the April revolution was one of the least libidinous countries in Europe. Striptease shows, topless dancers, dirty books and X-rated movies were, legally, at least, not allowed into the country. At the most, an occasional street vendor would risk arrest by the morals squad and peddle a few bootlegged copies of Playboy or some other forbidden girlie import. The morals squad still exists, but since the April revolution, the risk has gone out of eroticism. In fact, one of the curious consequences of the coup that ousted the old regime...
...role in trying to defame Daniel Ellsberg, as a court witness. That allowed freer questioning and Colson promptly gave damaging testimony against Mitchell, Haldeman and even Ehrlichman. He helped Ehrlichman only in contending that an aborted White House effort to have Hunt leave the country before his arrest was John Dean's idea, not Ehrlichman...
...loyal to Makarios and the small (2,000 members) but powerful EOKA-B organization. During last summer's coup, the EOKA-B sided with the then ruling Greek military junta to overthrow the archbishop. Unlike the leaders of the Athens junta, most of whom are now under arrest and awaiting trial on a Greek isle, the EOKA-B gunmen remain at large, mainly because Greek Cypriot authorities are eager to avoid another violent showdown after the debacle of the Turkish invasion...
Epps said he was "pleased" by the arrest. "That is just the kind of participation we need," he said. The new security measures in Claverly will continue despite the arrests, he added...