Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example of Russia's own dissidents, Lithuanians have become increasingly vocal in their protests against Soviet religious and ethnic repression. No fewer than 17,000 Lithuanians signed an open letter that was sent to the United Nations this year deploring the deportation of Catholic bishops, the arrest of priests, and the closing or destruction of churches. Perhaps the most moving appeal was made by Simas Kudirka, the Lithuanian sailor who was sentenced to ten years at hard labor for having attempted to escape aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel in 1970. At his 1971 trial, Kudirka cried...
...Ginzburg. Critic Isamu Kurita, writing in the influential Tokyo daily Yomiuri Shimbun, warned that excessive official zeal in enforcing Japan's tough obscenity laws could lead to "the barbarization of our culture and civilization in its crudest form." Tokyo Psychology Professor Kazuo Shimada sputtered that Nakata's arrest was unfair because sex "is a personal and private matter." Mitsuo Takeya, a leading Japanese nuclear physicist, worried that government repression "could end up by distorting the basic concept of sex." Complained Printmaker Kiyoshi Saito: "Where there is no sun, no healthy arts can flourish...
...facts of the charges against Okamoto-firing guns and illegally tossing grenades with intent to kill people and to damage property, and working for an illegal organization-were never in doubt. After his arrest at Lod seven weeks ago, Okamoto was confined for a period in Ramie prison, where Eichmann had also been held. Okamoto, who was manacled while sleeping to prevent self-strangulation, spent much of his time while awaiting trial composing his confession. "I did discharge arms with two other people whose names I have forgotten," he told the court. "I do not know how many people...
When the police sent a 17-year-old girl tricked out with a hidden radio into the home of Literary Critic Leslie Fiedler, they heard enough talk about marijuana, they said, to have reason to move in and arrest half a dozen people. Two of Fiedler's sons, a daughter-in-law and two other young men pleaded guilty to possession of pot; they received fines or were placed on probation. Fiedler and his wife were convicted in 1970 of maintaining premises where marijuana was used; he got six months and she was fined...
...military threat was subsiding, there were some decided signs of unease emanating from the Presidential Palace in Saigon. They were primarily visible in President Nguyen Van Thieu's increasing use of -and demand for-arbitrary power. During the past 2½ months, his government has ordered the arrest of thousands of "suspected Viet Cong sympathizers," including virtually the entire student body of Hué University; arrests are continuing at the rate of 14,000 per month, though U.S. and Vietnamese officials maintain that most of those detained are quickly released. Thirty-two opposition groups issued a statement denouncing...