Word: arrests
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...rude awakening for Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, the strongman behind Mexico's oilworkers union. At about 9 a.m. last Tuesday, scores of federal police officers and troops surrounded Hernandez's heavily guarded house in Ciudad Madero, northeast of Mexico City. Whether authorities first attempted to arrest Hernandez without force is unclear; what is beyond dispute is that the lawmen used a bazooka to blast open the front door. When the battle was over, a federal agent lay dead and Hernandez and about a dozen other union officials and bodyguards were under arrest...
Immediately after the raid, the government announced it had found 200 automatic weapons and 30,000 rounds of ammunition in Hernandez's house. Hernandez and his colleagues were quickly flown to Mexico City, where they were arraigned on charges of illegally possessing weapons, resisting arrest and killing a police officer...
...raid, coming just over a month after President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office following a campaign that promised major political and economic reforms, fueled speculation that Hernandez's arrest was the government's opening shot in its efforts to control the country's powerful unions. For much of its 59 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) has given considerable autonomy to union leaders in exchange for industrial peace and delivering votes at election time...
...might, after all, know what it was talking about. He changed his mind, Kohl said, after the government examined "certain documents" that had been "seized in the past few days." As prosecutors opened a criminal investigation of the West German firm Imhausen-Chemie and the case produced its first arrest, the growing scandal profoundly embarrassed the West German government and underscored once again the difficulty of controlling the development of chemical weapons...
After the initial Nanjing fracas, some 140 African and other foreign students were held under protective guard at a guesthouse for ten days. On Dec. 31, provincial authorities sent paramilitary police into the guesthouse to arrest "ringleaders" among the Africans. Armed policemen allegedly herded coatless students outside in zero-degree weather, then pummeled them and jabbed them with electric cattle prods...