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Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi placed the commander of the federal police regiment responsible for the area of the market place under arrest, the military statement said.

For it was a disappointment that for all their trouble they had received nothing but a ducking in a swamp; and it was something of a relief not to feel compelled to place under arrest those who had been of such timely service.

During a rock concert in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, a plainclothesman clubbed and beat a hippie he was trying to place under arrest.

In any crisis the motto of the Turkish police is "arrest everybody," and in nabbing every living soul in the Pera Palace they did not omit to place under arrest the British Minister, whom they promptly released.

Before replying, he communicated with Lord Clive, then at Murshid�b�d, and received from him instructions to place under arrest every officer whose conduct should seem to him to come under the construction of mutiny, and to detain such at B�nk�pur until it might be possible to convene a general court-martial to try them.