Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head off P.P.P. charges of election fraud this time around, the government is taking special measures to guarantee a fair vote. Judicial officers will supervise polling stations, and are empowered to order the arrest of anyone accused of irregularities. It remains to be seen whether such steps will ensure the victor of an honest mandate after 25 years of intermittent military law and emergency rule...
Even the definition of "privacy" can be questioned given the current conditions of the computer field. Would one arrest a curious individual wandering through a supposedly secure building with no locks...
...nine of them on the same day. Seagrave argues convincingly that Marcos' stirring tales of escaping from Japanese prison camps after being tortured, and then conducting reconnaissance raids for the Filipino resistance, are so much hogwash. In fact, an American commander of the underground in 1945 had ordered Marcos' arrest and execution as a collaborator...
...help maintain respect for the law. Says Sergeant Jim Mattos, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol: "As soon as you develop a policy of no chases, then the only people who are going to stop are the honest ones." Moreover, supporters insist, many chases end in the capture and arrest of serious criminals. Asks Donald Schroeder, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan: "If it were the Son of Sam in the car that you were chasing, would you let him get away...
...danger. Says the father of one victim: "They just shot them dead." Israeli Major General Amram Mitzna, who commands the West Bank, launched an investigation into the Yatta deaths. Insiders say the general was furious: "By shooting, you have exposed yourselves and your identity. You went there to arrest them, and the mission was not accomplished...