Word: arrested
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Additionally, we applaud the efforts of both Israeli and Palestinian forces to arrest the attacker and to prevent a potentially explosive situation from escalating. It is upon this sort of cooperation that peace can be built...
...Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn apart by four horses in Cuzco...
...determined. A senior executive at Texaco was found not to have referred to African-American employees as "niggers," as had been reported. The burning of black churches in the South was found not to have been the work of organized bigots, as had been reported. The arrest of a militia group in Montana did not end in a shoot...
...West Virginia, where one-third of all homicides are domestic, that change has been slow to come. In 1994 it became the last state in the nation to enact a "probable cause" provision permitting police officers to arrest batterers on the spot, even when the victim refuses to press charges--a law that domestic-violence advocates consider essential. The state's rural nature makes it hard to get services to the women who need them. And though the laws and access to the court system are now up to, or even ahead of, those in other states, even some...
...victim of domestic abuse can drop just one complaint, and that only after signing a waiver and agreeing to counseling. And along with the new laws has come what Riffe calls "substantial consciousness raising." Since 1990, the number of domestic complaints has jumped more than 300%, while the arrest rate for such complaints has tripled...