71.   The first arrest in the investigation came Friday, a government official said.

72.   The first arrest made by arriving Palestinian police was a Palestinian accused of throwing stones at the departing troops.

73.   The first arrests in Malaysia for spreading rumors over the Internet have people debating freedom of speech and the right to privacy on the information superhighway.

74.   The handover of the suspect, a Yemeni microbiology student, was the first known arrest outside Yemen in connection with the Cole attack.

75.   The law envisages the first arrests after publication in the official gazette, within days of passage.

76.   The shift in tone comes as officials turn up new leads and unnerving twists in the investigation, including the first arrest Friday, a government official said.

77.   They were the first arrests in Ireland in connection with the U.S. attacks.

78.   They were the first such arrests since Arafat consolidated his leadership in January elections.

79.   This was the first full arrest of an editor-in-chief of an Israeli newspaper.

80.   Two officers were charged Monday with severely beating a prisoner at the police station in Gonaives, in the first arrests since the rookies began graduating last summer.