1.   At least five were arrested in confrontations with police.

2.   All five were arrested on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse, because they had acted together, the police said.

3.   The five were arrested in California.

4.   All five were arrested Friday after a grand jury returned an indictment.

5.   All five were arrested in dawn raids on their homes in March following a four-month investigation into alleged bribes involving an Asian gambling syndicate.

6.   All five were arrested Tuesday in separate raids and held overnight at police stations in Hampshire.

7.   At least five were arrested.

8.   Dozens of commandos who lay in wait for the hijackers to come out of the aircraft pounced and arrested all five, they said.

9.   Foreign Ministry official Osamu Nasu said the five were arrested last Saturday, but that their identities and the circumstances of their capture were not yet clear.

10.   He said the five were arrested in their apartments late Saturday and will be expelled in the next few days.