Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Addressing the Mayday coalition, the paper advised: "After you get finished making what you think is a revolution by playing in the traffic, and if you happen to avoid arrest, don't come back here crying 'repression!' and try to stir up Act Two of your kind of revolution. Some trashing and some attempts at stirring up the campus proletariat have gotten to be routine around here and they don't impress anybody. The activities of last week made up a legitimate and resounding demand for an immediate end to America's latest bungling overseas...
...demonstrators were arrested during this first move, and police obviously tried to keep the arrest total low throughout...
Assistant Attorney General William H. Rehnquist defended the mass arrest procedures, saying the situation on Monday was one of "qualified martial...
...About 30 arrests were made and at least two demonstrators were beaten unconscious, while others were shoved against buses and trucks. When medics attempted to treat one unconscious youth, police told them he was under arrest and dragged his limp body away...
...incident which has received the most attention was the arrest of twenty allegedly North Korean trained Mexican revolutionaries for plotting the government's overthrow. The uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the Soviet Union, has given President Luis Echeverria's administration excuse to expel five too-ranking Russian diplomats and begin what some say is a new wave of political repression. In a Nixonian gesture, Echeverria appealed for national unity in the face of crisis while his Partido Revolucionaria Institutional (PRI) bought pages of advertisements in the country...