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Word: arresting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black-marketing in currency, 2) running illegal gambling, 3) harboring a Chinese wanted for murder, 4) "corrupting public officials and frustrating the present administration's efforts to eliminate graft and corruption in government." On the strength of these charges, Lukban got a warrant issued for Lewin's arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Reporter Buchanan was jailed on suspicion of "involvement" in Young's escape-although the reporter did not reach Havana until the day after it happened. After bannering the arrest, the Herald sent Assistant Managing Editor John McMullen to Havana, retained a Havana law firm to secure Buchanan's release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hot Tip from Havana | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...week's end Jim Buchanan, hungry although not mistreated, was still behind bars, and Evelyn Hill, safely back in Miami, was being kept under wraps by the Herald. Clearly Fidel Castro, who ordered the arrest of three other newsmen last week,*was making a point in his own theatrical way: "foreign" reporters are not welcome in Fidel Castro's Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hot Tip from Havana | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...eventual arrest of the salesmen was brought about when a Holworthy boy, in an effort to find someone to share the cost of a subscription, burst into his proctor's room. The proctor immediately summoned the Yard policemen, who after questioning the boys called Cambridge police. The orphans were taken away to jail at about 6:15 Saturday, but were almost immediately bailed out by an agent of the subscription company, who maintained that all the magazines purchased will be delivered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orphans' Selling Campaign Ends With Arrest in Yard | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Immediately upon his appointment as chief of staff, Song launched an investigation of the army from top to bottom. First results: the arrest of scores of crooked officers, from generals to lieutenants. Many were found to be taking bribes from contract-hungry businessmen -and in several cases even succeeded in buying off some of Tiger's investigators, who in turn were also court-martialed. Other underpaid officers (a four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Army for Sale | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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