Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week before Parravano's arrest, the Boston Police refused to arrest him at a demonstration at the Boston Naval Recruiting Station on Tremont St. "The captain said that they don't arrest blind people:" he said, "but the State Police at Hansoom didn't discriminate...
When the thousands of May Day demonstrators marching in the "Army of Peace" in Washington in 1971 tried, somewhat grandiosely, to shut down the Federal Government, the police found an efficient tactic to keep the city moving: mass arrest. During the protests, the capital police rounded up more than 13,000 persons, herding them, it seemed, into every lockup in town, including a fenced-in practice field near R.F.K. Memorial Stadium. Most were released the next...
...TIME'S Press section of Jan. 24, you reported the arrest of Courier-Journal Reporter Frank Ashley in Owsley County, Ky., on charges of impersonating a lawyer in order to interview prisoners in a jail. Ashley had earlier written several articles about nepotism in a federal job program in Owsley County. It was a clear case of a reporter being harassed by local officials who disliked his stories. Ashley came to trial, after a change of venue, in Lee County Circuit Court in June. The jury acquitted him of the charges after deliberating only 23 minutes...
Privacy. Nixon calls them "the old values"?parental authority, a stand against permissiveness, law-and-order before civil rights. In the process he has presided over increasing surveillance and broader arrest patterns. Despite his praise for traditional values, the question of privacy has been submerged in the fight against crime and subversion. He too often lacks compassion and equates conformity with conscience. He is apt to ignore basic changes occurring in the U.S. by simply conjuring up an image of national wellbeing, perhaps a sentimentalized vision emanating from the America of his young manhood...
Police were not amused. Justice Minister Rene Pleven instructed the Paris district attorney to arrest Aranda and charge him with "stealing, concealing and revealing." Frontier police and Orly airport officials were also ordered to catch Aranda-though, as the Paris daily Le Monde wryly pointed out, not to question...