Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a hotel room and sat down to make some necklaces for the concert. My nerves, a bit frayed, were not helped any when the hotel's proprietess banged on our door and threatened to arrest us for overflowing the shower. Now I knew that doing one to five on an illegal bathing rap was unlikely, but this small town and its seemingly endless supply of cops would take the word of a respectable citizen against two dirty, hippy-looking hitch hikers, so we ignored her demands to open the door lest she see our jewelry spread...
...privately appeals to the U.S. to act like "a great power." But U.S. room for maneuver is as limited as the Afghans'. Conservative Muslim tribesmen in provinces bordering Pakistan have rebelled against government reforms; some air force squadrons, which strafed them last month, have been grounded by the arrest of pilots loyal to Qadir...
...civil emergencies this month was to impose martial law. In Rhodesia this meant little, since the country had been under military control since the guerrilla war began six years ago. In Iran the Shah's declaration brought a clampdown on civil liberties and empowered the army to arrest without charges and to invade homes without warrants. In Nicaragua martial law merely underscored Anastasio Somoza's desperate situation. Said a Managua businessman: "Martial law here is simply a license to kill...
...easy on Crawford and allowing him to leave the country immediately, have paved the way for a possible prisoner swap involving two Soviet U.N. employees who will go on trial in Newark on espionage charges Sept. 27. The Soviets were picked up just three weeks before Crawford's arrest...
Alexander, by contrast, is mad only in the sense that he was rash enough to protest the arrest of his friends for political activism. If he will recant and confess his error, he can be released when ever he wants. "Your opinions are your symptoms," explains his doctor (Remak Ramsay). "Your disease is dissent...