Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court papers, Ku reported that his contacts at Norinco were eager to continue. Customs agents say Ku offered a variety of larger arms, including surface-to-air missiles that he boasted "could take out a 747." Customs didn't have any more money to spend but delayed making arrests. "We were trying to lure the large business figures [in China] to the States," says Rollin Klink, head of Customs in San Francisco. Officials finally sprung the trap after learning that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were on to the sting. Still, one important figure...
...Pentagon flatly refuses to let NATO forces hunt down and arrest Karadzic and his military sidekick General Ratko Mladic. The only alternative is to persuade Milosevic to squeeze them out. After the Swedish official charged with implementing the civilian provisions of Dayton, Carl Bildt, tried for two weeks in vain to get Milosevic going, the U.S. set to work, and Milosevic reluctantly promised late last week, following several jawboning sessions with U.S. diplomats, that "the skids are greased" for Karadzic's imminent political demise...
PALERMO, Sicily: Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca was arrested by four hundred police officers in his Canatello vacation home. Charged with killing of anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, Brusca was taken into custody while watching a movie about Falcone's death. Brusca allegedly set off a roadside explosion which killed Falcone, his wife and three police agents as their cars sped along a highway near Palermo. He was taken to a Palermo prison amid cheering crowds of police officers. "The police were absolutely joyous last night," says TIME's Greg Burke. "A victory celebration broke out when he was brought...
...World News Tonight, to run a New York-based political unit with 50 staff members. They supplied stations with daily stories during the early primaries, and will cover both political conventions this summer. Local news directors, meanwhile, praise Fox for its work on such stories as the arrest of the Unabomber suspect...
...Harvard University Police, after committing one of their biggest blunders by arresting and incarcerating an innocent man, me, on frivolous charges of threat and extortion, have now resorted to the illegal act of banning me from the Harvard campus. On Friday, April 12, the very day when the D.A. dropped the charges against me, the Harvard Police, instead of issuing a sincere apology for maltreating a former post doctoral fellow who is a university professor (at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell), sent me a stern warning that from now on I have no right to even attend public lectures...