Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell you. It's not who you are but where you are that counts. For years, in addition to constant mispronunciations of my first name, I had to endure the humiliation of being assigned to an all-boy cabin in summer camp, and the embarrassment of an arrest warrant for failure to pay a male poll tax when I lived in Brookline...
...break last year when a Chicago junkie caught selling dynamite led local cops to the apartment he had stolen it from. A search resulted in arrest warrants for Carlos Alberto Torres, 25, his wife Marie Haydee Beltran Torres, 22, and two others. All are the educated children of Puerto Rican immigrants. Carlos Torres, soon to be the newest addition to the FBI's Most Wanted list, attended the University of Illinois; his wife, a high school honors graduate, faces a murder charge: her fingerprint was found on an employment application left at the site of a 1976 bombing that...
...recent mini war in southern Lebanon (TIME, Oct. 3), for example, Arafat's Fatah troops accepted a cease-fire designed to halt fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese Christians. The P.F.L.P. refused and continued to lob shells toward Israel. Arafat solved the problem: he ordered his men to arrest 14 P.F.L.P officers until Habash agreed to the truce...
Although the Kampuchea government has diplomatic relations with 86 states, only eleven foreign embassies have been allowed to open. With the possible exception of the Chinese, who have close ties with Cambodia's rulers, all foreign diplomats are subject to this strange honorable house arrest. They are not allowed to go more than 200 yards or so from their compounds. Because the embassies are not permitted autos, an envoy who wants to make a call or shop at a recently opened "diplomatic store" must request a car from the Foreign Ministry. Predictably, there is little social life. Summed...
Expressions of outrage at his arrest--as well as a the arrests of 50 other prominent black leaders--have filled the U.S. media this week, and numerous campaigns to protest the crackdown have been organized...