Word: arresting
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...Johnstone, two mid-level State Department officers in Washington, made a desperate effort to short-circuit the bureaucracy. They requested leave and hopped a commercial flight to Saigon to organize an unofficial rescue mission. Arriving at the embassy on April 22, they learned that orders were out for their arrest. They posed as French businessmen, holing up in an empty apartment found for them by sympathetic lower-level embassy employees and working the phones to round up Vietnamese to be smuggled out of the country...
...operation was moving out 500 people a day. April 20, says Smith, "was when we really started to pick up the pace and started moving people out." That was the date when simplified paperwork rules for departure went into effect--and two days before embassy officials tried to arrest Rosenblatt and Johnstone for attempting to do unofficially exactly what General Smith was doing officially...
...censored, and outspokenness is punished. Duong Thu Huong, whose 1988 novel Paradise of the Blind portrayed the communist system as exploitative and corrupt, spent six months in jail in 1991 and remains under surveillance. Two of the country's most prominent Buddhist prelates are in prison or under house arrest for political activities. Though many of the country's leaders are themselves Buddhists, they are determined to keep religion from undermining their authority...
...looked at the warrant, and we don't believe the warrant contains any cause to arrest," Pattis said. "There has been no demonstration that Yale has been deprived of anything permanent...
Justice Department officials said two unidentified white men, who remain at large, may be responsible for the Oklahoma City car bombing. At an afternoon new conference, Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. would offer $2 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a pair of "John Does" linked to a vehicle thought to contain the massive bomb that tore apart the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. The FBI said the link to the two men was established by identifying a Ryder rental truck as the vehicle used in the bombing. It was rented in Junction City...