Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more serious accounts of battles with county officials and with the coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures. But the warrants and injunctions now dangle inactively and lives in the valley continue with a quiet sense of victory...
Felony crimes were pulled off literally under the noses of FBI agents, but for decades not a single arrest was made. The reason? The offenses-burglaries, unauthorized wiretaps, mail thefts and assorted other illegal dirty tricks-were committed by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pursuing real or imagined enemies of the country on orders from their superiors...
...they imaginatively use the banana? Your guess is almost as good as mine, but as Malone stated last night while munching on a Chiquita, "I've only got a year and a quarter left of school excuses. If I ever did anything like that after college, they'd arrest...
...compelled to take some individuals into custody for views that strike at the country's existence, then nobody should interfere." Was that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India speaking? No, this time it was Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of neighboring Pakistan, defending the arrest and imprisonment of opposition politicians following parliamentary elections last month. Charging that Bhutto had stolen the election, opposition M.P.s refused to take their seats in the National Assembly; nearly 100 of their supporters have been killed in clashes with police, and 25,000 others arrested...
...such intangibles is not a small item in their renaissance goals. In the land cases, the Indians' willingness to settle out of court, even with the law on their side, forces one to wonder whether the stunning size of the claims has not been intended mainly to arrest the attention of the nation, to prick its conscience, to arouse a more thoughtful response to the larger Indian awakening. If so, the campaign has won a measure of success already. The proof: intervention by President Carter, at Justice's suggestion, in efforts to achieve settlement of the Maine case...