Word: detains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sanction of the Government." However, the Argentina regime cannot escape responsibility for such right-wing security forces as long as they continue operating without government efforts to discourage them. The State of Siege, in effect since 1974, continues to be enforced in Argentina, allowing the government arbitrarily to detain people for indefinite periods without due process, and to restrict the exercise of fundamental rights...
...most delicate assignment. "Soviet citizens are usually leery of talking about the KGB," he reports. "But those willing to be interviewed provided insights available nowhere else. One person told me, 'If you walked down the street with a sign reading GLORY TO COMMUNISM, the KGB would detain you, because all unauthorized action is prohibited.' That said something very real to me about the KGB's pervasive power." In New York, on the receiving end of the gleanings from correspondents, were Senior Editor Donald Morrison, and Staff Writer John Kohan, who wrote the story...
...bureaucratic technicality. When South African military personnel travel abroad they are required to fill out a routine form for their superiors. After officials at Simonstown noticed that Gerhardt had neglected to turn in the documents, they placed him under surveillance. Finally police moved in last week to detain the Gerhardts and conduct a meticulous search among the silver and the Persian carpets. If found guilty, Gerhardt could face a firing squad...
...Mubarak, the taciturn former air force commander who became President when Sadat was slain. Largely because of the threat of Muslim extremists, the People's Assembly has extended the state of emergency for another year at Mubarak's request, giving security forces more power to arrest and detain suspects. But while he strives to maintain order at home, Mubarak is also caught up in a wide range of complex diplomatic questions. He must uphold the strong commitments that Sadat made to the U.S., to Israel and to the Camp David accords. Yet he must also register his disapproval...
...state-controlled television called on the government to detain Smith if it could prove that he had actually urged some Western countries to stop supporting Zimbabwe. The English-language Herald posed the question, "Is this not treason?" Even some of Smith's backers among Zimbabwe's more than 200,000 whites disassociated themselves from his comments...