Word: arresting
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...timing of Garcia Abrego's arrest has raised questions. On March 1, Clinton is due to grade or "certify" Mexico for its antinarcotics efforts, and Zedillo has been accused by Mexican and U.S. critics of conveniently offering up Garcia Abrego to ensure that Mexico is treated to a favorable review. Since Garcia Abrego has been losing ground for a couple of years, the theory goes, his arrest is really only a token, while more powerful drug barons are allowed to operate. Yet Zedillo does seem to be more sincere about curbing corruption and the drug trade than some...
Unfortunately, Garcia Abrego's arrest will not reduce the flow of drugs from Mexico into the U.S. for long. American agents have been told that Amado Carrillo, Mexico's No. 1 trafficker, is now sitting on 75 tons of cocaine. Regardless of Garcia Abrego's fate, that stockpile will no doubt eventually make its way to the streets of Los Angeles and New York and Chicago...
...trains. Some of the week's cheerier air travelers ran luggage-cart races during enforced overnight stays in terminals up and down the coast. Many of the surlier ones, it seemed, were packed onto United Flight 801 from New York City to Tokyo, whose captain reportedly had to threaten arrest to maintain order when the plane was delayed 7 1/2 hours on the runway...
...Shattuck made it clear that the United States expects Milosevic to help resolve the war crimes issue. So far the international tribunal in The Hague has indicted 45 Serbs and seven Bosnian Croats, including once-close Milosevic allies Gen. Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, but has been able to arrest only one person. On Sunday, Shattuck visited an area near the former Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, up to now sealed from all allied officials and reporters, where as many as 7,000 civilians may have been massacred by Bosnian Serbs. "Two thousand missing people very nearby could mean that...
Harvard Police Lt. John F. Rooney said that Afrasiabia's arrest was the culmination of a three-month investigation by University detectives...