Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office: "When the black kids find they can't get a piece of the pie, they're going to get a piece of the action. That means trouble." As Americans learned during the riots of the 1960s, however, ghetto violence explodes by a wholly unpredictable chemistry. The arrest of a cab driver was enough to trigger the 1967 riot in Newark. In New York last week, four policemen were gunned down-two of them fatally shot in the back, the other two critically wounded by submachine-gun fire into their patrol car. It is assumed that the shootings...
Sadat's chief enemies-who happened to be Egypt's most prominent men-were all under house arrest or in jail last week. They included former Vice President Ali Sabry, whose dismissal by Sadat three weeks ago began the whole battle for control, as well as Gomaa and former War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi and ex-Minister for Presidential Affairs Sami Sharaf. Gomaa's intelligence chief, Major General Hassan Talaat-who is rumored to have taken notorious delight in watching suspects being tortured-was hospitalized after Sadat's Republican Guards gave him a measure...
Last fall, Vellucci suggested a $5000 or $10,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest of sellers and major pushers, respectively. "When I suggested a bounty," he said yesterday, "it was a Vellucci way of shocking the citizens into the realization that there was a drug problem. It succeeded...
...Averted Arrest. Sadat may have been forced to move more quickly than he intended. He had been planning a double family celebration-his wife's birthday and a daughter's wedding anniversary-for the night the upheaval took place. The party was canceled. That afternoon, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott spent almost an hour at the presidential mansion and found no atmosphere of impending crisis...
...weeks ago. Gomaa had surrounded the headquarters of Cairo radio with policemen in civilian clothes to prevent the President from speaking to the nation after a stormy meeting of the party's central committee. Sadat chose not to broadcast that night, thus averting a showdown and his possible arrest...