Word: incommunicado
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Newsmen sped out ten miles to suburban Helmieh to Naguib's modest, one-story, stucco villa in the center of a sandy, poverty-row street. They found the ex-President incommunicado behind a cordon of wellarmed, closemouthed troops. Even his phone...
...Minister of Government. After a two-hour session during which Villalba stoutly refused to commit U.R.D. assembly members against a boycott until after a party convention in January, secret police seized the six men at the minister's door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes. Protesting this "fascist stratagem," Villalba bitterly refused to predict that U.R.D. assembly members left in Venezuela would dare stand...
Next day the cops checked Restorer Fey's apartment, and sure enough, there were 21 paintings and seven drawings. Fey was bundled off to jail and held incommunicado until the prosecutor could make a thorough investigation. At week's end, Dietrich Fey was still there, awaiting a formal charge; through his lawyer he issued a flat denial of Malskat's story. Malskat himself was at liberty, apparently ready and anxious to be the state's prime witness when & if a trial is called. And all through Germany, art collectors were making a quick, uneasy check...
...members of the Harvard class of 1936, only 300 reported, 200 live incommunicado on Capri, and there never was any accounting for the remaining 400. Geographically, we have dispersed all over the country since graduation: Boston, East Boston, Melrose, Newton Center, Newton Falls. Whereas only one Eli went Communist, our entire class, as everyone knows, is Communist...
Slaps & Shocks. Worried relatives obtained a court order to "produce and exhibit" the prisoners. Last week, after holding them incommunicado for four days, the police gave in. In a room in the supreme court building, Mario and Edgar were permitted to tell a group of relatives, court officials and newsmen what had happened. Both brothers said they had been tortured. Reported Mario...