Word: arresting
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Should the verdict have come as such a surprise? From the arrest of Williams to the uproar in the jury room, there were ample signs that the prosecution's case was harder than it looked. Here's some advice they should have heeded...
JURORS ARE ONLY HUMAN. This was the question that had Los Angeles in an uproar. In a community exhausted by 2 1/2 years of strife since Rodney King's arrest, jurors reached their conclusions under the influence of a number of forces inside and outside the courtroom. Were they scared? Were they moved by a desire to bring events to a close by meting out a punishment for Denny's attackers comparable to the one for King's? A day after the trial ended, one juror denied that anxiety about the potential aftermath of their decision influenced the verdict...
...functioning democracy is required to keep Haitians at home, establishing one may be beyond U.S. means. The Marines could, in theory, invade the island, arrest the military and police chiefs, and return Aristide to office. The last time the Marines did something like that, back in 1915, they stayed for almost two decades and achieved very little in the way of nation building. Aristide, who knows how sour the word Marine is on Haitian tongues, has not asked for an invasion. Still, the troops could...
...June 6 U.N. resolution, for example, was no secret. Aidid's forces had ambushed and killed 24 Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers. The Security Council voted for the "arrest and detention for prosecution, trial and punishment" of the perpetrators (though it didn't mention Aidid by name). The U.S. supported the resolution. All this was on the front page of the newspapers. A week later, U.S. troops counterattacked Aidid's headquarters, in a fire fight that was covered live...
...from the gathering disaster in Somalia . . . The nature of the mission changed dramatically in June ((when)) the Security Council unwisely made ((Aidid's)) capture and trial an essential part of the mission." But back in June, while warning of a potential quagmire, the Times said, "Threatening General Aidid with arrest seems a minimal way of expressing international condemnation." And "Mr. Clinton dare not flinch . . . If the world's might cannot prevail against a Somali warlord, then what hope is there for collective security...