Word: dragnet
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Writing to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Chief Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sharply questioned the effect on the "poor Negro citizen" of such draft proposals as 20-minute street detention, dragnet arrests to sift suspects, station-house questioning up to 24 hours after arrest, and lack of free counsel for indigents. Protested Bazelon: "I cannot understand why the crimes of the poor are so much more damaging to society as to warrant the current hue and cry-reflected in the proposed code -for enlarging police powers, which primarily are directed against those crimes...
...gone, lost in the foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
...suspects never slept in the same house on successive nights. Many had their photos in an "Arrest on Sight" mug file at police headquarters. To avoid detection on Singapore's teeming streets, they spent much of their time in late-night movie houses. But last week the dragnet was out. Sweeping through the island state, government security police rounded up 115 pro-Communist subversives and labor agitators opposed to Singapore's inclusion, with Malaya and Britain's Borneo dependencies of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, in a proposed Malaysian Federation of 10 million people...
...Wesgram was required to investigate, and he did. When NATO headquarters in Paris reported that Der Spiegel had indeed divulged secrets, Prosecutor Wesgram drafted arrest orders charging Augstein and other Spiegel staffers with "suspicion of treason," "treasonous falsifications," and "active subornation," or bribery. Then Wesgram spread his dragnet...
There is no time for an answer, for it seems that none other than Mulberry himself, with a brand new bride, has arrived on the scene (to the tune of the Dragnet theme and much hissing). This time, Mulberry has snagged the innocent daughter of businessman Harvey Smith, whose name breathes dollars. With piercing insight, Milly recognizes that Mulberry is in love with Alice Smith only for her money, and she immediately plunges to the crux of her hopeless moral dilemma...