Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first arrest for obscenity came in San Francisco for using a ten letter word onstage. Lenny was acquitted, but soon he was being arrested in so many towns that he wore an overcoat while doing his act. After all, as Lenny put it, if they arrest you in town A and then in town B, by the time you get to town C they got to arrest you or everyone will wonder, "What kind of shit town are they running...
Naturally the Chileans are demanding hearings to see if their arrest-expulsions pass the new test. Some also claim that their government tortured them with the knowledge and agreement of U.S. agents and that information gained by torture is being used as evidence against them. The agents deny any such thing, and so far, in every case, they have been upheld. To date, eight Chileans have been convicted or have pleaded guilty, and two were acquitted or cleared of the original charges. The other six wait in the federal jail, convinced that whether or not they were drug smugglers, they...
During his first three years incarceration and the nine months between his second arrest in 1969, Moroz wrote four essays criticizing the Soviet totalitarian system...
...Risking Arrest. As if to echo Solzhenitsyn's appeal for a resumption of dialogue among Russian dissidents, an unauthorized press conference was called in Moscow to announce the book. Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R. Risking arrest, three other dissidents who contributed to the book were willing to be identified: Scientist Mikhail Agursky, Art Historian Yevgeni Barabanov and Historian Vadim Borisov...
Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love...