Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that the prosecution wants to paint a negative picture of Heidi." --Elissa, mother of reputed Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, in an interview with a California radio station, following her daughter's arrest for violating the terms of her release from jail by testing positive for drugs...
...Washington promised more than it could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...after thousands of oil workers ended their strike to protest the arrest of opposition leader Moshood Abiola, Nigeria's military leader General Sani Abacha declared absolute power, issuing decrees placing his military government above the country's courts and allowing detention of people for up to three months without charges. Abiola, widely believed to have won the annulled 1993 presidential election, awaits trial on treason charges...
...Mexican government issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Cabal Peniche, head of Mexico's fifth-largest banking group and one of the country's largest produce exporters. As the government seized control of the group, Mexican Finance Minister Pedro Aspe accused Cabal of funneling up to $700 million from his bank to himself. He is thought to have fled the country...
Barry's resurgence also reflects Washington's racial and economic fissures. Even in the aftermath of his arrest, Barry retained many sympathizers, especially among African Americans who believed federal prosecutors had set him up. By 1992 he had moved to Washington's poorest section, cast himself as a voice for the downtrodden and won a seat on the city council. To many of his core constituents, returning him to the mayor's office would amount to vengeance. Mary Cox, a lawyer and Barry ally, says that in much of Washington's African-American community, "you learn early on that...