Word: arrestingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...considered a fugitive, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Federal investigators believe he is now in Africa...
Yesterday, the official Xinhua news agency reported that Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, admitted in court that she led a group in preparing false evidence against then Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and ordered the arrest of his wife on charges she was an American...
...last week that he could not obtain permission to emigrate, although a Soviet official had warned him that he might suffer an auto "accident" if he did not leave the country. One of the Soviet Union's most talented writers, Georgi Vladimov, has been under constant threat of arrest because he is the Moscow representative of Amnesty International, the organization that reports on political prisoners around the world. Early this month Vladimov was summoned to Moscow's Lefortovo Prison for interrogation by the KGB. In the process, Vladimov suffered a heart attack...
...defendants had not been seen publicly since their arrest. Jiang Qing, a onetime film actress, seemed almost defiant as the trial opened. Her jet-black hair was pulled severely back behind her ears; she marched into the courtroom with her head regally erect and then alternately smirked and yawned during the reading of the indictment, apparently to show contempt for the proceedings. Still, there were some reports that at one point she broke down and cried. Other defendants seemed tired and worn from their long imprisonment. Two members of the Gang, Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, had shaved heads...
...Britain's worst mass murderer in this century. Yet, after taking some 25,000 statements, checking over 150,000 vehicles and interviewing nearly 200,000 people in the five years since the first murder, of a Leeds prostitute, in October 1975, the police are not close to an arrest. They have, however, built up a general picture of the killer; they know his blood type and shoe size and believe that he is between 30 and 50, an artisan or manual worker, powerfully built and white. Still, they cannot explain many points, including the variable intervals between killings that...