Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walls in every city plastered with posters attacking new ideological victims as "traitors," "bandits," "worms" and "vermin." During the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, that was the way China's radicals denounced their political enemies. Last week, the former persecutors had clearly become victims. Within days after the arrest of the country's top radicals (TIME, Oct. 25), China had been roused to full fighting pitch against them. The marches and mass rallies seemed carefully designed to fuel the myth of a spontaneous, popular uprising against the discredited radical "antiparty clique," as well as to build...
...long-expected struggle for power-or at least one momentous phase of it-was waged so quickly that it was over before any outsiders even knew it had begun. Indeed, the first rumors of Mme. Mao's arrest seemed so implausible that Peking-based foreign reporters were afraid to cable them out. There was no open violence during the upheaval, no street fighting or troop movements, only a series of enigmatic wall posters praising Hua and appealing for unity. Day after day, fleets of limousines converged on the Great Hall of the People for what was believed...
...Peking soon discovered that photographs of the four radicals were no longer available in bookstores-a common sign of a purge. None of the radicals appeared at Peking's airport when visiting Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare arrived, giving further credence to the tale of their arrest. None of the four were at Somare's welcoming banquet next day, but neither was Chairman Hua. His ally Li Hsien-nien did the honors and said blandly (or perhaps ironically), "The situation in China is excellent." At this dinner, however, a Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed that...
Isolated Actions. Both groups staged damaging raids-as did right-wing terrorists-against the inept regime of Perón's widow and successor, Isabel, 45. When Videla led an army coup that deposed Mrs. Perón (she remains under luxurious house arrest in the lake district), he promised that the government would exercise a "monopoly of force." In July the army cornered and killed ERP Leader Mario Santucho and two of his top aides. Last month government forces trapped the national political secretariat of the Montoneros; five of them were shot to death, and four others captured...
...following year, on the very day Mrs. Gandhi declared a state of emergency and detained thousands of her opponents without trial, Fernandes went underground. For almost a year, until his arrest in Calcutta last June, he traveled the country disguised as a Sikh, with a flowing beard and turban. Gradually, he organized a resistance movement, published a clandestine mimeographed newsletter and-according to the prosecution-staged a number of bombings. If found guilty, he will face a sentence of life imprisonment...