41.   The theory, agency officials say, is that arresting the leaders will have a more crippling effect on the drug organizations.

42.   They were stopped when Shevardnadze ordered their leader arrested.

43.   They could make any attempt to arrest their leaders extremely difficult.

44.   Those charges did not stick, but top gang leaders were arrested last year with members of the related Cisneros crime family in a monster drug case.

45.   While illegal, most of the meetings are known to the authorities, who keep close watch and sometimes move in to fine or arrest the leaders.

46.   While peacekeeping forces in Bosnia have arrested some low-level officials, U.S. and European fears of heavy casualties have halted attempts to arrest top leaders.

47.   Peres said Saturday that Arafat had shown some signs of compliance, such as arresting the leader of Islamic Jihad.

48.   Opposition leaders are arrested and local newspapers are censored.

49.   Opposition officials said two senior leaders had been arrested.

50.   Palestinian police arrested the leader of a militant Islamic group claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed three Israeli women.