Word: warrantize
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...proceedings in March that were still going on last week, when Venezuela, now under elected President Romulp Betanceurt, finally applied for extradition. Under terms of a 1922 treaty, Venezuela must convince a U.S. federal court that the charges against Pérez Jiménez are strong enough to warrant trial, and that the crimes are not political...
...Archbishop Fracçois Poirier, Haiti's highest prelate, who is also French-born and white, this was too much. He notified parish priests up and down the island of the expulsions, followed with a denunciation of the government's action. Duvalier retaliated with a warrant for the archbishop's arrest for violating the 1860 Haiti-Vatican Concordat, which binds priests "to do nothing against the interests of the republic...
VVhile Turkish cops without a search warrant ransacked Sergeant King's house under the terrified eyes of his wife and children, King himself was taken not to jail but to the stable dungeon. There, says King, he was introduced to an old Turkish custom: the bastinado. As he hung head down from a rafter, two Turks took turns beating the soles of his bare feet with a "rubber or leather stick...
...April 5, 1861 a White House clerk carefully penned a letter for the signature of the new President of the U.S., Abraham Lincoln. Addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, it requested that "on today, and on the first of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary . . ." Placed on public view for the first time at week's end, the document bears witness anew to the honesty of Honest Abe. Inaugurated on March 4, 1861, Lincoln decided that his pay ($25,000 a year) should not have begun until the following...
Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 200 Ibs.), well-tailored Birrell has not been seen in the U.S. since November 1957, when he failed to answer a warrant for his arrest in a Securities and Exchange Commission case involving Swan-Finch. Since then he reportedly has been in Havana and other foreign capitals leading a fast and elegant existence, always with a beautiful girl...