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...trial last year, parliament ousted him as Minister of the Interior for permitting student demonstrations. Since then, his main vehicle of dissent has been the national daily Khordad. The newspaper has published defiant antiregime opinions by prominent clerics, notably Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who has been under house arrest since 1997 for questioning velayat-e-faqih, the absolute authority of the clergy. In an explosive article, a young cleric, Mohsen Kadivar, even criticized the royalist tendencies of the clerics and their treatment of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei as a shah. Hard-liners feel particularly threatened, explains newspaper commentator...
...federal agents issued a warrant for the arrest of Terry Church, 46, the flamboyant, Harley-riding president of Keystone Mortgage Co., a subsidiary of First National Bank of Keystone. The agents excavated hundreds of cartons of mortgage documents buried in a corner of Church's mountaintop ranch. They alleged that she and one of her company's vice presidents, Michael Graham, obstructed bank regulators who were investigating a fraudulent scheme that left First National insolvent and forced bank regulators to take it over on Sept. 1. The bank's losses are expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation some...
...Pakistan's military high command dismissed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, placing Sharif and his close associates under arrest. Army Chief Pervez Musharraf proclaimed himself chief executive, declaring a state of emergency, placing the constitution in abeyance and suspending parliament. Sharif's ouster is the fourth successive dismissal of an elected government before it completed its term of office, bringing to an abrupt end the democratic process Pakistan's powerful army had itself put into place in 1988 when it reluctantly transferred power to the political leadership following eleven years of military rule...
Responses to the arrest were mostly positive among students, who were relieved that the burglar had finally been arrested...
...This was a great arrest. People can be a little more at ease," McNamara said, "at least until the next criminal comes along...