21.   The arrests followed a night of tense showdowns between protesters and a phalanx of police, including mounted officers from both Boston police and State Police.

22.   The arrests followed an incident on Saturday in which a crowd of protesting students threw stones at Prime Minister Lionel Jospin of France during a campus visit.

23.   The arrests followed more than five weeks of investigation.

24.   The arrests Friday followed the interrogation of the first two men.

25.   The arrest followed a few minutes later.

26.   The arrests followed a probe by the Secret Service, the U.S. Attorney in New York, the Social Security Administration and other federal authorities that began in February.

27.   The arrest followed an undercover investigation that led to the conviction of Jacques Jakmaya for possession of counterfeit currency.

28.   The arrests followed a national uproar that forced Berlusconi on Tuesday to scrap a government decree that prevented magistrates from holding graft suspects in prison.

29.   The authorities in Virginia said the arrests followed an urgent exchange of information with New York detectives on Monday night, after the shootings in Queens.

30.   The arrest follows days of Serbian and Yugoslav army statements about the need to preserve Yugoslavia, which is made up of Serbia and Montenegro.