Word: incommunicado
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...Hundred Children. Francisco Franco's government, after years of tight-lipped toleration of the anti-Franco monarchists, was cracking down. The dictator's police gave no explanations, made no charges. But by week's end it had jailed incommunicado more than 30 members of the militant monarchist faction, Avan-zadilla Monarquica...
...three members of Argentina's moribund Conservative Party who had also been friendly with Kirton or the Oppens were arrested. For good measure, a few members of the troublesome Radical Party and a Communist or two were also nabbed. In all, 24 men were arrested; all were held incommunicado...
...Consul in Peiping relayed the report to Washington. From Ward's skimpy recapitulation and the splutterings of the Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
...trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents rapped him hard for carrying out the spy probe under a secret order in council. Said St. Laurent later: "I was satisfied it was the right thing to do and I was prepared to take the consequences...
...made in the El Paso Herald-Post, Sheriff Apodaca first slapped the football player into solitary. Then he cleared him of all charges and turned him loose. The roof promptly fell in on the sheriff. A Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the crime by squeezing his testicles with a bicycle lock. Nuzum's landlady, who backed the athlete's alibi, had been warned by the sheriff that "he didn't want any more dead...