Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have you done all those things, you whom I respected so, who had so much?' He said only that I should wait and he would be cleared. It was very disappointing." So disappointing, in fact, that Zia approved a court order calling for his onetime leader's arrest and transfer to a Lahore jail...
Remember those 160 students who came here to study Ukranian? Thirty-seven of them staged a well-publicized hunger strike for 24 hours this summer, in protest of the Soviet Union's arrest of several prominent Ukrainians. More than 100 others joined them demonstration in the Yard, gathering signatures on a petition the students sent to President Carter...
...accused Carter six weeks ago of reneging on his campaign promises to blacks, the President reacted heatedly and suggested that Jordan had been "demagogic." But Carter was sufficiently impressed by last week's criticism to promise that he would get started soon on a new urban policy to arrest the decay of the cities and provide more jobs. The emphasis would be on incentives for greater private investment in areas now shunned as too risky. The President asked the black leaders to "hang in there" until he got his policy under way. But that, in effect, is what...
...White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune, which has since ceased publication, as a serious presidential assault on the press. He rates in the same category L.B.J.'s use of Lawyer Clark Clifford, who pleaded with a few newspaper editors not to report Walter Jenkins' arrest for homosexual acts (Clifford asked that Jenkins be allowed quietly to quit his White House...
...emergency After the central government [declared the emergency], it was the states that [enforced it], and maybe they did some things that weren't right. They did arrest people whom maybe they shouldn't have. It was an exceptional situation. People did suffer, and we've said we're sorry that they suffered. Maybe it could have been better managed. But something had to be done to stop this kind of agitation at the time of very great economic crisis and shortages. It was like a wartime situation. Maybe it went on too long, but during...