Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medical School, lecturing on preventive medicine and world health. Or he might be back in West Africa, helping fellow Africans survive the unending five-year drought. But, if he had his way, he would be home in what he calls "my little country," in Sierra Leone, where re-arrest and imprisonment may await...
...waiting for him in Sierra Leone. Stevens saw his return as a political threat--the people might sweep this old but not aging hero, who had negotiated Sierra Leone's independence, back into office. He declared a state of emergency, and, in October, 1970, ordered his former friend's arrest...
...suburban Cairo. They expected to encounter no resistance, to capture the academy's arsenal of weapons and vehicles, and then move on the headquarters building of the Arab Socialist Union where Sadat was giving a major speech. As implausible and bizarre as it sounds, Sareya apparently intended to arrest Sadat and proclaim himself Egypt's new President. He then supposedly planned to declare a republic based on Islamic fundamentalism, modeled after Libya...
While the arrest of a spy is common enough in West Germany, the case that cropped up last week was particularly damaging for Chancellor Willy Brandt. One of Brandt's three personal assistants in the Chancellor's office, Günter Guillaume, 47, was arrested on charges of spying for East Germany...
...Kang was put under house arrest, and later died. Khrushchev's opinion is that "most probably, Mao had him strangled or poisoned. Mao was capable of such things, just as Stalin was." Why did Stalin betray Kao Kang? Khrushchev's judgment is that the Soviet dictator figured that sooner or later Mao would have learned on his own that Kao Kang had been informing on him and, if that had happened, Mao could have accused Stalin of fomenting opposition to the Chinese government. "Stalin wanted to win Mao's trust and friendship, so he took reports about...