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...policeman collars a mugger on a busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Pinch Must Really Sting | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...detachment of French Foreign Legionnaires to Morocco just after World War I. The Legionnaires are assigned to protect a French archaeological expedition against attacks by uppity Arab tribes who seem to think they have a right to their own national treasures. Deneuve is attracted to a roguish cat burglar (Terence Hill), who is seeking refuge in the Legion from the cops. Having already lost a husband and father to war, however, she wants no more entanglements, no more feeling. To spare Hill, she throws herself at the embittered West Point reject (Gene Hackman) who commands the Legionnaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Instant Late Show | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Crucial Timing. The FBI believes that Colson, after getting President Nixon's approval on the evening of Jan. 3, 1973, either himself or through an associate, received the money in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 1973. The timing is crucial. In late 1972, Watergate Burglar Howard Hunt was a loose cannon in the cover-up scheme, demanding through his lawyer, William Bittman, to be paid for his continued silence. The lawyer met with Colson on Jan. 3. Colson later told Dean: "Bittman came at me like a train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Teamsters' Watergate Connection | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

James Earl Ray, the bungling petty gunman and burglar whose life of crime has been mostly one fizzle after another, was back where he had always longed to be: at the center of national attention. With his renewed prominence, painful memories-and nagging questions-flooded back concerning his slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a Memphis motel balcony on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...touching confusion of Watergate burglar Rolando Martinez: "There I was, a Cuban, in contact with the Navy, with the Coast Guard, with the FBI, with the CIA, with all the authorities. Suddenly I found myself in jail. Where was the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Grinch Who Stole Castro | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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