Word: arresting
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...tale of our times." The portrait depicts a stern yet handsome man in the uniform of a high-ranking communist official of the prewar years. He had been a Bolshevik revolutionary, says Zatonsky. But he differed politically with Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union's early years. He was arrested in 1937 and called "an enemy of the people." He was summarily shot, one of more than a million to be executed in the Great Purge of 1936 to 1938. Zatonsky's mother was sent to the Gulag. His sister was expelled from university. He lived for the next...
...happens on the territory of a single state -- the Russian Federation. You might recall that in 1787 the population of Wyoming Valley sought to secede from Pennsylvania and form its own state. The executive council answered that challenge with orders to a unit of the state's militia to arrest their leader. We found ourselves in a similar situation under different circumstances in different times. [Chechen rebel leader Jokhar] Dudayev had launched an armed rebellion with the goal of destroying the integrity of the Russian Federation. Hence coercion by the state was used...
Cambridge detectives John Fulkerson and William Phillips staked out the Mattapan house after a month-long investigation. After spotting Diaz bringing out trash barrels from the house, the police confronted him and he fled inside. Boston police were able to surround the house and arrest Diaz without incident...
House of Blues Arrest...
...Oklahoma City federal building, blasting concrete and metal and lives, and creating a whole nation of mourners. At first the timing of the explosion seemed like nothing more than an eerie coincidence. But soon evidence of a connection surfaced. In an FBI affidavit taken after Timothy McVeigh's arrest, a former co-worker claimed that the bombing suspect had been unusually aggrieved by the government's conduct in Waco...