Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both men were managers for Brink's Inc., the armored car service, and both, authorities believe, were members of a secret, neo-Nazi organization called the Brotherhood of Silence. Last week Charles Ostrout, 51, and Ronald Allen King, 45, were arrested by FBI agents in California and charged with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader...
...question was left hanging in the air. Reagan does not know the answer. Nobody does. He let his imagination go to the brink of the unthinkable in order to dramatize his distress over the nuclear doctrine of the Soviet Union and the U.S. Their mutual safety depends on their mutually assured destruction. "There's something so immoral about it," he said quietly...
...evidence pointed to an ominous new stage in the Ethiopian calamity, in which 7.5 million people hover on the brink of starvation. Some 3,000 Ethiopian refugees are descending each day on Sudanese relief centers, and anywhere from 250,000 to 350,000 additional refugees may arrive in the next < two months. Says Nicholas Morris, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum: "We have had 125,000 new arrivals in the past year, 70,000 since November. We need food as fast...
...Tigers marked the first time in 25 years that Harvard pulled off the double whammy. In addition, a victory over Columbia in New York City broke a 16-game road losing streak, and then two more wins away from home--over Yale and Brown--put the Cantabs on the brink of the Ivy title...
There are too many to count. At Bati and Quiha and more than 100 other refugee camps in Ethiopia run by international organizations like the Red Cross, famine relief has begun to pour in. But throughout the country, at least 6 million people live at the brink of starvation. Relief workers expect that almost a million Ethiopians may die this year alone in what could become "the worst human disaster in recent history." After ten years of drought and civil war, twelve of the country's 14 provinces have been laid waste by a famine of biblical proportions. More...