Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four months ago, Pollak published a broadside by Novelist Sol Yurick that blasted U.S. journalism for not accepting the Symbionese Liberation Army on its own terms. Yurick pursued the absurd argument that if the S.L.A. called a kidnaping an "arrest," the press should go along; otherwise, journalists were guilty of Establishment bias. For the current issue, Author Joseph Epstein (Divorced in America) has written an essay called "The Media as Villain." In dis cussing journalism's problems, he casually laid on some heavy indictments...
...police account of the incident accuses Anderson of struggling with officers Burns and Hallice and resisting arrest. The police also say Anderson injured his eye when he fell off his motorcycle while swerving to avoid hitting a police squad...
...routinely noted the car's license number, then punched it into his computer-which is part of the Treasury Emergency Communication System and is tied into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's national crime computers. Almost instantaneously, the FBI told the customs official "yes": there was an arrest warrant outstanding for the owner of the car somewhere...
...probation terms that may prevent continued offenses. Thus a young marijuana smuggler was ordered to go back to college, get a job, report his grades to the court and write a paper on whether marijuana has harmful effects. A youth convicted of disorderly conduct and violently resisting arrest was required to teach a jail inmate how to read. When a cleanup of the Miami River was organized by officials, more than a dozen Sepe "volunteers" were there to help; two were cited for their extraordinary efforts by Florida's secretary of state, and Sepe immediately ended their probation...
Begins Two days after the arrest, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler dismisses the affair as "a third-rate burglary attempt," adding that "certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is." But others are less blase. Within hours of the breakin, FBI agents find Hunt's name in the address books of Barker and Martinez. Administration officials are also worried because Hunt and Liddy were involved in another secret operation, the White House plumbers, set up in mid-1971 to stop security leaks and investigate other sensitive security matters...