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...remarked to a coworker, "What would you think if I told you I'm the Hillside Strangler?" Someone passed the comment along to the police, but it was one of thousands of tips, and was ignored. After Bianchi's arrest in Bellingham, Los Angeles police took another look and discovered some remarkable coincidences. For six months he had lived in the same Glendale apartment building as Kristina Weckler, the Hill side Strangler's seventh victim. He lived across the street from Cindy Hudspeth, victim No. 13, and once lived in the Hollywood apartment building where Kimberly Martin...
Armand Maloumian, then 20 years old, was visiting Moscow in 1948 when he was suddenly arrested by agents of the MGB (now the KGB). A French citizen of Armenian descent whose father was a physical education instructor temporarily teaching in the Soviet Union, Maloumian was accused of spying for the French secret service. He was first condemned to death, but was later convicted of treason, despite his foreign nationality, and sentenced to 25 years at hard labor. In early 1956, when Soviet authorities were cutting down the Gulag population as part of the destalinization drive, Maloumian was informed...
Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, refused yesterday to release any information about the arrest...
Best known for "A Report from the Beria Reservation," an account of prison life written during his first incarceration, Moroz taught modern Ukrainian history before his arrest in August...
Still more proof that the leadership meant business came when plainclothes police two weeks ago arrested four prominent human rights activists as they tried to paste up a wall poster that denounced the authorities for repression. The activists belong to a group that publishes a clandestine journal called Inquiry. Protesting the arrest of its own editor, Wei Jingsheng, 29, the journal complained: "Where is freedom of speech in China? All criticism is fiercely suppressed as contrary to socialism and to the dictatorship of the proletariat. What brutal hypocrisy!" A wall poster responding to Deng's speech sneered that...