Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hussar restaurant with none other than Driberg, current Labor Party House Leader Michael Foot, and the latter's brother, Sir Dingle Foot, a former Solicitor General in the Labor government. Raymond was acquitted of the murder, but received three years in prison for impeding the arrest of a criminal. In 1972 he skipped from Dartmoor prison while on a home leave and was later arrested in Australia, posing as an editor of the London Times. After finishing his sentence, he disappeared from sight...
...floor. Heavily dependent on once cheap oil to fuel its breakneck postwar expansion, Japan slid into its worst recession in 30 years. Recovery has been slow, and the government's attention has been diverted from important economic matters by the Lockheed bribery scandal (marked last week by the arrest of four businessmen). But now a surge in exports, including sales to the U.S., is brightening the picture. Last weekend, Prime Minister Takeo Miki was able to report to President Ford and five other world leaders at their economic summit in Puerto Rico encouraging evidence that the Japanese economy...
...exclusively male control in the Colonies. Partly because of widespread labor shortages, American women have by now made inroads into virtually every occupation. A survey of local newspapers reveals advertisements by women blacksmiths, gunsmiths, shoemakers, shipwrights, tinworkers, barbers and butchers. The Virginia Gazette recently carried a notice of an arrest of a runaway slave signed by "Mary Lindsey, gaoler" of Henrico County...
...November, David L. Gorski, University police chief, broke precedent by requiring University police to arrest all trespassers, rather than simply order them off campus...
...Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, a Luanda lawyer. He questioned witnesses in a calm, fatherly way, occasionally rebuked flamboyant, goateed Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro, and allowed defense lawyers to introduce matters that Western courts would quickly have ruled inadmissible or irrelevant. At one point the judge ordered the arrest of a prosecution witness for perjury and had the testimony of another stricken from the record...