Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat to individual liberty is the FBI's ever-expanding files. The types of persons on whom such information is kept should-be sharply restricted and the control over the dissemination of such information tightened. Almost any Government agency, as well as banks and insurance companies, can get the arrest record of any prospective employee. These records often filter into credit agencies. Yet when an arrest is found unwarranted or a person is declared innocent of a crime, the FBI rarely corrects the record. At a minimum, individuals should be allowed to challenge any false information from FBI files that...
...American Indian Movement (AIM). Carrying fresh proposals in a brown briefcase, two Indian lawyers dashed back and forth in a Cadillac between the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Pine Ridge and the AIM fortress. A major sticking point was the Justice Department's threat to arrest any Indian militants leaving the trading post and confiscate their weapons as evidence. It was largely to carry out that threat that the Justice Department had kept its cordon around the area. At week's end the Justice Department backed down. In a sudden reversal of policy, it removed all roadblocks...
...incident was familiar enough. A milling crowd of demonstrators, a stone thrown through a glass door, an angry scramble with authorities that led to the arrest of ten people by federal agents. The catchall charge-conspiracy, along with various related offenses -was not unprecedented either. But it was conspiracy with a difference. Far from being yippies or antiwar militants, the defendants were middleaged, middle-class white-collar citizens, and the cause of their anger was the Internal Revenue Service. In December, the San Diego Ten, as they would doubtless prefer not to be known, were duly tried and convicted...
...early-morning arrest and the incarceration at Gwelo Jail hardly came as a surprise. Niesewand, 28, was one of the few enterprising and influential newsmen still reporting regularly from Rhodesia. He ran a bureau representing the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, United Press International, Agence France-Presse and a number of London and South African newspapers. It was Niesewand who broke the story in 1971 of the arrest of former Prime Minister Garfield Todd, who was also considered a threat to public order. Niesewand published exclusives on government action against the African National Council, a black political group opposed...
Grinding Pressure. His phone has been tapped, his office and home searched by police, his official sources restricted by Information Minister P.K. van der Byl. In a letter to a friend before the arrest, Niesewand said: "The worst part is the grinding social pressure -not knowing whether one or both of us will be attacked for being Commie rats. As one lady put it at a recent dinner party, why don't I pull myself out of the slime in which I wallow...