Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently, so was Walker. He was angered by the manner of his arrest, especially the identification where he was handcuffed in the line-up. He explained that he had a full-time job, and that the next day was payday. Why, he asked them, would he rob a woman of twelve dollars. They shook their heads, failing to understand this young black. Why, they asked him, did he rob a woman of twelve dollars...
These words are taken from a collection of ardently feminist writings that "outrage public morals" and "abuse the freedom of the press." That at least is the charge brought against the three women authors of the collection when the censors in Portugal issued a warrant for their arrest and banned their book, New Portuguese Letters, a commentary on the lot of women in machismo-oriented Portugal. To feminists round the world, as well as to champions of a free press, the police action against the Portuguese women in June 1972 was an outrage that slowly became the focus...
...that he could be tried by a military court. The Congress refused to lift his immunity or impeach the Senator -which Bordaberry last week cited as justification for his action. (Erro, luckily, was in Buenos Aires on a lecture tour at the time of the coup and thereby escaped arrest.) At week's end, an uneasy calm prevailed in Uruguay. Bordaberry imposed strict censorship, ordered schools and universities closed through July 20, and banned public meetings for political purposes. There were rumors, however, of developing resistance. The powerful National Workers Federation called for a general strike...
Poulson's arrest means that British papers will no longer refer to him in connection with the growing scandal -now being called the "British Watergate"-and it makes especially poignant one sentence in the self-censored editorial: "We should certainly try to avoid the situation in the United States in which there are ordinary prosecutions and a major public inquiry taking place simultaneously." The upshot is that discussion of the larger scandal has been quashed for now. If the same system existed in the U.S., the real story of Watergate might have remained buried while the pawns were being...
...director. Colby, who formerly headed the CIA's dirty tricks division, has been subjected to intense questioning before Congressional committees for his role in a CIA operation in South Vietnam in which over 20,000 "Vietcong" were killed by CIA-sponsored assassination teams. Colby claims that only those resisting arrest were killed in "Operation Phoenix," but the immensity of the death toll and a couple of contrary witnesses make his testimony suspect. At any rate, the CIA has participated in enough extra-legal overthrows of Third World governments to merit placing its leader on the list...