Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Razo's arrest last July on suspicison of 13 armed robberies in the Los Angeles area drew national media attention and renewed concern about the experience of minority students at elite East Coast universities. He pleaded not guilty to the charges...
Click. A world-famous director rehearses one of Strindberg's plays. Suddenly policemen appear in his theater to arrest him on charges of tax evasion. His bowels weaken and he must make a lengthy, humiliating trip to the water closet, with a cop posted outside the door, before going to confront his accusers...
After the incident, bleeding from the throat, Kang turned back and walked a mile to 77 Massachusetts Ave. where he saw an MIT policeman, Homans said. Kang asked the officer for help shortly before Cambridge police reports for his arrest were issued over the radio...
...Political opposition is flourishing. At the beginning of Chun's rule in 1980, the country's best-known opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, 62, was found guilty of treason and, after serving time in prison, forced into exile for two years. Upon his return, he was put under house arrest...
...opposition too is learning that democracy cuts both ways. Opposition parties forced a bill through the Assembly in July giving the legislature wide investigative powers, including the right to order the arrest of reluctant witnesses. Roh vetoed the proposal. Consultations produced a compromise acceptable to both government and opposition. The event was quiet but historic, emblematic of the changes of the past year. "It is a good sign for democracy," says Kim Dae Jung. "We got together and compromised...