Immediately after the war began, the Habyarimana Government began large-scale arrests, seizing more than 8,000 people, most of them Tutsi.

By late tonight, officials had seized 60 people in connection with the disturbance.

She had no idea whether she could seize four people at once, but she opened herself to saidar, wove the flows in Air and held them ready.

Christian Solidarity International has been criticized by the United Nations and rights groups, who say buying slaves encourages captors to seize more people.

On the second occasion, the police seized almost 200 people and transported them 25 miles outside Prague.

Then Peruvian slave traders seized about 250 people - half of the atolls' population - in the 1860s.

Last Wednesday, the police seized eight people after 100 demonstrators abruptly appeared and linked arms in the asphalt-covered town square, almost in the shadow of Lenin's statue.

American agents played a lead role in that raid, which seized at least 26 people altogether.

As the strike gained force, paramilitary forces burst into a radio station, seized a former presidential candidate and 11 other people and put the station off the air.

The Panamanian gunmen seized 15 people, and all but two eventually were released.