Before they moved on the arrests, though, they had to tell the president.

Who else would want Bean dead?Any other enemy would seek to capture him.

The notion that one particular robin might, due to a genetic mutation, be better than other robins at evading capture by cats is difficult to grasp.

As the authorities re-established control, however, they began to arrest anybody whose loyalty could be called into question.

Repeated UN failures to capture Aidid had only raised his status and tarnished the humanitarian nature of the UN mission, I agreed.