Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amin claimed that he was responding to an attempted coup hatched by Obote, who lives in exile in Tanzania. A week earlier, as Amin tells the story, his suppression of the coup had led to the arrests of Archbishop Luwum and the former Cabinet ministers. Amin still insisted that the three men had died in a traffic accident while trying to escape arrest, but refugees told a far different story. They charged that the victims had been taken to an army barracks, where they were bullied, beaten and finally shot. Some reports even had it that Amin himself had pulled...
Ironically, Norway arrested and tried a woman for espionage in 1965, after a KGB defector had told how Soviet intelligence in the 1950s secured information from "a female employee [in the Moscow embassy] who enjoyed Russian male companionship." But the authorities picked up the wrong woman -one Ingeborg Lygren-and had to pay her $5,700 in false-arrest damages, while Gunvor Haavik continued her career...
Within days of her arrest, the Oslo government expelled six Russians, including the Soviet embassy's third secretary, A.K. Printsipalov, the KGB operative who was caught passing documents to Haavik. Last week still another Russian departed on a one-way trip to Moscow. He was G.F. Titov, officially a counselor in the Soviet embassy in Oslo but in fact the KGB spy master for the entire Norwegian operation...
Ginzburg's arrest again prompted Carter to issue a statement of regret. The Russians next picked up Orlov-whether in response to Carter or simply because of Orlov's activities is not clear...
...stunning clampdown six weeks ago, the government imprisoned at least 50 people for supporting a petition to reconsider the forced exile of the popular East German balladeer Wolf Biermann. Physicist Robert Havemann, who was in a Nazi prison with Honecker, has been under house arrest since late last year for criticizing the regime. A host of dissident artists, writers and students have been arrested or beaten up by goons hired by the security police. Following the Soviet style, the police have lately taken to putting dissidents into insane asylums. Last week Honecker called for a closer connection between the Soviet...