Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrorists operating in the country's 15 Northeastern provinces, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn's government has sent 15,000 troops and civilian volunteers into the area. But last week it was the Thai security police who struck at the very power center of the insurgency. In a predawn roundup, they arrested 33 of the country's top Communist leaders, including twelve Central Committee members of the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand...
...other prisoner who made news was Andreas Papandreou, leftist son of former Premier George Papandreou. The real target of the initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens...
...after 3½ years of comparatively peaceful occupation of Denmark, Hitler suddenly decided to apply me final solution to the approximately 8,500 Danish Jews. To start the roundup, the Gestapo chose a date when most Jews would be at the synagogues-the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, which fell on Sept. 30. Early that evening, Dr. Werner Best, the ranking Nazi in Denmark, was so confident of the outcome that he happily wired Hitler, "Denmark is free of Jews...
...February 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor, U.S. troops began herding 110,000 West Coast Japanese Americans out of their homes and into internment camps scattered throughout the Western states. The wholesale roundup, ordered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, made a kind of simplistic military sense. After all, the Pacific Coast had been formally-if somewhat hysterically-declared a combat zone. The presence of aliens, all of whom were at least potentially sympathetic to the enemy, seemed to constitute a visible threat...
...Nasser agents got wind of the plot and ordered another massive roundup. Last week, after a four-month trial, seven of their leaders were ordered executed, another 85 will go to jail for terms ranging from one year to life...