Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aquino, who was charged with illegal possession of firearms, murder, and plotting subversion with Maoist rebels, was not exaggerating; if convicted, he could have been sentenced to execution or life imprisonment. Despite having spent eleven months in prison since his arrest, Aquino looked trim and confident when he took his place in the dock of the courtroom, a converted army lecture hall in Manila's Fort Bonifacio. Instead of trying to answer the specific charges, however, he shrewdly grabbed every opportunity to denounce the proceeding itself as "an unconscionable mockery," clearly aiming his remarks at the 200 newsmen...
...federal agents requested that Giarrusso put the suspected six "in the freeze" until the President's visit was over. Giarrusso, explaining that his informant had not even witnessed the meeting and that his evidence was hearsay at best, refused. "If you want them arrested," Giarrusso told the Secret Service, "then you arrest them. We have no grounds." Instead he agreed to keep close watch on all six suspects, and the Secret Service obtained arrest authorizations for the six from a U.S. magistrate, making pickups possible at the slightest hint of trouble. But the six suspects made no moves...
...turn, Japan depended on consultations with Seoul to protect its large investments. The South Koreans were embarrassed by Japan's action, which in its way was sweet revenge for Kim, a longstanding foe of Park. But that was small consolation: he is being retained in Seoul under house arrest...
...make it impossible for them to bail out of jail, wash off the tear gas, and join a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation: liberal students headed for law school could not avoid a career-crippling arrest by steering clear of militant demonstrations and still contribute meaningfully to ending the was by joining the peaceful waves of people who clogged the streets in quiet and orderly marches...
...patient-which his top staff went out of their way to violate." Ralph Nader disliked the speech; so did the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the newly re-elected head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who, at a mass rally in Indianapolis, heatedly called for the President's arrest...