Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim positively identified the man as her attacker. University Police placed Land under arrest, charging him with assault and battery, and took him to Cambridge Police headquarters, where he is being held on $2000 bail...
...past three months the session has turned into an almost unmitigated Democratic disaster because of a crushing succession of failures to overturn presidential vetoes. Nonetheless, the party's congressional leaders believe that time yet remains to salvage enough of their program to retrieve their self-esteem and arrest President Gerald Ford's momentum before the presidential campaigns begin in earnest next year. As a first step, House Speaker Carl Albert planned to meet with House committee chairmen to set a new Democratic strategy for the rest of the session...
...Indians believed responsible for the FBI men's deaths. A possible motive for the shootout was found. Some 300 yds. behind the cluster of houses where the shooting took place, Indians had stashed an impressive store of weapons and explosives. The agents sought simply to arrest a kidnaping suspect; but the Indians may have feared they were about to discover their cache, panicked and opened fire...
...legal taboos against marijuana continue to crumble. Last week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however...
...trouble began when four Indians kidnaped two young whites, releasing them a few hours later. Two days later the FBI arrested one Indian and the following day sent Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, both 28, to Oglala with warrants for the arrest of the other three. The agents headed toward a hamlet down a dirt road flanked at the end by 20-ft.-high rocky banks. Indians apparently opened fire on the car from both sides. Coler and Williams radioed a desperate Mayday call and succeeded in turning the car around, but could not get away. Their assailants apparently...