Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warrant for Walsh's arrest was issued at 12:30 p.m. yesterday. Walsh has yet to surrender to authorities, according to FBI spokesperson William J. McMullin...
...international community has put Saddam under a form of house arrest. His air force cannot fly to the south; his army cannot march in the north; he dares not venture for too long into the sunlight for fear of encountering a smart bomb or a dumb bullet with his name on it. Led by the U.S., the U.N. is using sanctions, inspections and the threat of military retribution to whittle down the scope of his authority to his palace and his bunker. The hope in Washington is that sooner or later, someone in Saddam's inner circle, or more likely...
Shining Path's gruesome 12-year campaign has led to the deaths of 25,000 Peruvians. Because Guzman dominated the group's ideology as well as its centralized command, analysts expect his arrest to cause a severe setback that will put the force of 5,000 active militants on the defensive. But the guerrillas have vowed to pursue their bloody fight to destroy all of Peru's institutions and install a peasant-worker state. Last week they set off a bomb and killed a policeman to demonstrate their continued resolve. "Once a new central committee is formed," Guzman apparently told...
...sudden feeling of relief -- none more so than the autocratic Alberto Fujimori, who has turned his presidency into a virtual dictatorship, partly to quell the revolution. "Our fear was broken from one day to another," was how Isabel Coral, who works with victims of Shining Path violence, greeted the arrest. In their recent year long assault on Lima, the guerrillas had come close to terrorizing the populace into capitulation. Guzman's arrest not only halted that momentum but, more important, it gave the government's anti-guerrilla campaign a welcome boost. "In a struggle like this one, morale and will...
...Shen's arrest has prompted concern among many Chinese students enrolled at local colleges. The 24-year-old scholar-activist has spoken at Harvard several times...