Word: arresting
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...killed two U.S. diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi. The Americans, all U.S. consulate employees, were driving to work when the killers, armed with assault weapons, pulled up alongside the Americans' van and sprayed it with bullets. In Washington officials speculate that the shootings were revenge for the arrest and extradition of Ramzi Yousef, a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing. In a separate attack, terrorists exploded a bomb outside a Karachi mosque, killing a dozen people--many of them children...
Much more serious, though, were the events surrounding last year's arrest of Inati Ntshanga '95 for trespassing after being in the basement of Matthews without his Harvard ID. Johnson's denial of any racism in the incident and failure to discipline the officers and act forcefully in the matter contributed to the fiasco...
Carlos Salinas ought to have been pleased to learn of the breakthrough in capturing the alleged ``intellectual author'' of the assassination. Until, that is, the ex-President learned that agents were converging on the house of the murdered man's former wife, Carlos Salinas' sister Adriana, to arrest the suspect: the ex-President's older brother, Raul...
...guards had completed their mission, they would have arrived to find a squad of 30 federal police agents preparing to enter Adriana Salinas' house and arrest Raul, 48. He put up no resistance, and by 2:30 p.m. the officers had hauled him off to a maximum-security prison outside Mexico City...
Police reports describe the suspect as a light-skinned Black male, between 35 and 45 years of age and wearing a beret, a white turtleneck shirt and a three-fourth length dark coat. Police have a warrant for his arrest for unarmed robbery...