Word: arresting
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Moore was apprehended at Newell Boathouse at 4:48 a.m. and at the time of his arrest he was carrying a dangerous weapon, police said...
...first extended interview with a Western journalist since theBurmese military regime freed her from six years of house arrest this week, Nobel laureateAung San Suu KyitoldTIME Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burtonshe believes the junta has started down the path to democracy. "I believe that all thinking people must be ready to change with the times," Suu Kyi told Burton in the unfurnished front room of her lakeside home. "I hope that in the last six years they realize that what we want is change for the good of the nation, and that by cooperating they too may be able...
Burma, one of the world's most repressive military regimes,stunned the international community by abruptly freeingAung San Suu Kyi-- Nobel peace prize winner and champion of the southeast Asian country's democracy movement -- from six years of house arrest. As hundreds of supporters gathered in a light rain outside her home in Rangoon, historically laconic military leaders merely noted that her sentence had expired. "No one expected this to happen," saysTIME's Sandra Burton, in the Burmese capital. "The move indicates far greater confidence on the part of the junta that neither Suu Kyi nor the people will rush...
...American citizen who spent 19 years in aChinese labor campbefore emigrating to the U.S. in 1985, was not allowed to discuss his case in the heavily-monitored, half-hour meeting with U.S. Consul General Arturo Macias at a jail in the central city of Wuhan. The arrest has single-handedly sentU.S.-Chinese relationsinto a tailspin, infuriating lawmakers in Washington, setting off numerous State Department protests. But China, equally livid at Wu's repeated success inslipping through its bordersto expose human rights abuses, has barely budged. Officials there today said Macias might have to wait another month to see Wu again...
Online porn certainly pays. Thomas' income last year topped $800,000, enabling the slight, shaggy-haired Californian to indulge in his two extracurricular passions: expensive cars and exotic birds. Subscriptions have more than doubled (to 7,000) since his arrest. Some of the newcomers aren't even bothering to download the dirty pictures; they seem to be offering their $99-per-year subscription fees as donations to the cause. The extra income will come in handy, since the Thomases' legal bills are approaching...