Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain civil liberties, India remains, strictly speaking, a democracy. Mrs. Gandhi's harsh effort to suppress political opposition shocked observers outside India, but she did act within the bounds of India's rather pliable constitution. Even though some 30 opposition members are in jail or under house arrest, Parliament continues to function. Moreover, an unfettered Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on Mrs. Gandhi's conviction in June for illegal campaign practices, as well as on a constitutional amendment abrogating the charges of which she was convicted. It is expected to rule in a week...
...purported reason for the kidnaping of Patty that started the whole bizarre affair appeared last week in the San Francisco Examiner, the oldest newspaper in the Hearst chain. It printed a lengthy excerpt from an S.L.A. document said to have been found at the Harrises' apartment after their arrest. The paper, which had no identifiable author, declared that the S.L.A. had grabbed Patty in revenge for the arrest on Jan. 10, 1974 of Russell Little and Joseph Remiro, members of the terrorist group who were later sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Marcus Foster, Oakland...
...arrested last week for trespassing in Children's Hospital. Hospital security forces turned him over to Boston police, who found warrants for his arrest outstanding in three city districts on charges of armed robbery and rape. Police are now holding him on a rape charge...
Since his arrest, four rape victims have positively identified him from photographs as their attacker, Harvard police officers said yesterday...
...Seconds later, a man rushes out of the front door of the tenement. He sees the cops, but an officer beats him to the homemade grenade he is carrying and also snatches his pistol, a .38 revolver. He is Velez-with his once bushy Afro shaved. The police also arrest another man, wanted in the bank robberies. Four hours later, in Brooklyn, they find Car Owner Hernandez, real name Eco Avila. After Velez, 26, is booked on charges of double homicide, Lieutenant Yuknes says, "We've been home twice since this started." But he can't go home...