Word: arresting
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Liberia's latest spasm of fighting began earlier this month. Leaders of the country's two main warring factions--who, following a peace agreement last August, had formed a new ruling council in Monrovia--announced their intention to arrest one of their own council members, Roosevelt Johnson. His followers responded by spilling into the streets, blowing up two helicopters recently donated by the U.S. and seizing hundreds of hostages, including, reportedly, at least 20 peacekeepers. Holed up in an old military base, they exchanged fire with opposing militiamen...
Blankenship's father, William Sr., a resident of Del City, Okla., said he was unaware of his son's arrest before being contacted yesterday by The Crimson...
...doesn't see technology as the world's most important proposition and would rather be playing with his children than making discoveries might conceivably be a good representative of the whole quintessentially human quest, our continuing attempt to learn and build new things. My response to this week's arrest is to congratulate the FBI on its fine work, thank once again the many people who helped us generously when we needed it, remember and honor the men who were bestially murdered and drink l'chaim--to the life of mind, to the human enterprise that no bomb can touch...
...upon physical evidence. McVeigh's fingerprints were found on a receipt for 40 one-fifth-pound bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer--the chief ingredient in the Oklahoma bomb--that the FBI discovered at Nichols' home in Kansas, where they also found detonator cords with blasting caps. After McVeigh's arrest, traces of explosives were detected on his clothing and in his car. Prosecutors will argue that McVeigh and Nichols stashed the fertilizer in rented storage facilities, then mixed and assembled their bomb in a park near Nichols' farm. To clinch its case, the prosecution does have one star witness: Michael...
...Currier House Committee has certainly been putting in a great deal of effort to maintain a spirited environment. The arrest of William Blankenship '96, social chair of the Committee, on charges of possession of and intent to distribute a variety of drugs only testifies to the lengths to which Currier has gone to foster conducive living...