Word: arrests
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...indictment. They provided only that an impeachment would not foreclose an indictment. Second, the Vice President is seeking a privilege, an implied privilege that was denied to the Congress by the Constitution. Congressmen "shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest" and only during "attendance at the session." That means that they could be arrested for treason and felony - bribery, for example - even during a session. The narrow privilege thus granted to Congress was consciously withheld from the President. Finally, an act of 1790 passed by the first Congress provided that...
...similar to the one introduced by the military dictators of Brazil. It vests vast power in a President, who in recent years has been appointed by the general staff rather than elected. When "national security" is in danger, the Brazilian code allows for suspension of such democratic rights as arrest warrants and habeas corpus and provides for censorship and trial by military courts...
...wake of the coup that ousted Allende's government, there were rumors in Chile that Neruda had been arrested, and even executed. In fact, he had been moved shortly after the coup to a private clinic in Santiago for treatment of cancer, and he later died of heart failure. Shortly before his death, Neruda's rambling house in Santiago was ransacked, his books and papers were burned. The new military government denied responsibility and vowed to arrest the "vandals" who had done the ransacking. At week's end, none had been caught...
...comment on Nwafor's charge but said that the search committee had only had preliminary meetings which he described as "harmonious." In his statement, Nwafor said, "Nevertheless it remains imperative that the search committee should discharge its duties with resolute vigor, and to make its mandated appointments forthwith to arrest further disintegration and an imminent collapse in the department...
Cambridge police arrested a suspect in the incident. They declined to comment on the arrest...