BRAZIL: ARREST IN REPORTER'S KILLING

After a siege of more than a week, the police in Rio de Janeiro have
arrested a powerful gang leader, Elias Pereira da Silva, and charged him
with the murder of Tim Lopes, a prominent television reporter. Mr. Lopes
was kidnapped and killed early in June, just as he was beginning an
investigation of drug trafficking in slum neighborhoods controlled by the
gang. His death became a symbol of the government's inability to control
criminal groups, generating street demonstrations and demands for a
reorganization of the police.