11.   In Russia, the balance has tipped toward the police with President Boris Yeltsin last month issuing an emergency decree giving them broad powers to detain suspects without charges.

12.   In July, Police Commissioner Noor K. Mohammed said his department had even uncovered a vague plot to assassinate or kidnap Gordon and had detained several suspects.

13.   In the past the Saudis have confirmed that they had detained suspects in the case.

14.   Late Monday night, Luzhkov, the mayor, said that two suspects had been detained.

15.   No suspects were ever detained in any of those explosions.

16.   Officials said the suspect was detained by local authorities in Amman, Jordan, over the weekend and had been kept under arrest since then, awaiting extradition.

17.   On a few occasions in Bethlehem and Ramallah, angry crowds that included armed men confronted Palestinian security officers who tried to detain suspects, preventing their arrests.

18.   On Wednesday night the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved legislation that would make it easier for authorities to detain terrorism suspects and monitor their communications.

19.   Okinawan authorities arrested and briefly detained a suspect on assault charges.