Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they can take a punch at it, that the police officer can take it. But police officers want to be treated as human beings." Nor was money the whole point when Elliott Jones, widow of Washington Cardiologist and Author Michael Halberstam, sued her husband's killer, a millionaire burglar named Bernard Welch. Jones won a $5.7 million award, but the IRS has first claim on Welch's assets. Even if she never gets a penny, Jones found a different recompense. "It gives you a certain satisfaction," she says. "I never even had a chance to cuss...
...giant fireball shot 1,000 ft. into the air. Windows shattered and burglar alarms were touched off for miles around, and residents of communities almost 100 miles away reported that their homes shook. In the predawn hours last Friday, a thunderous explosion ripped through three towering gasoline tanks at a Texaco storage facility in Newark. The blast killed one man and injured 21 others. After using water and foam to contain the blaze, hundreds of fire fighters watched as the giant vessels slowly began to burn themselves out. By daylight the tanks, filled with some 3.4 million...
...seem afraid of anything," said Donna. "I'd scare them away but it didn't work." Not long thereafter, a meter reader noticed that the living-room window was smashed and called the police. Guns drawn, officers entered the house with John and found not a burglar but a hawk with a 2-ft. wing span perched in the living room. John Pflueger theorized that the hawk had been going after a woodpecker snack when it hurtled through the window. Things have been more peaceful of late, but the hawk and dozens of woodpeckers can still be seen...
...Sliwa in August 1979, it seemed like a pretty good idea. Community-minded youths would speed nights riding the New York subways, protecting the elderly, giving directions to lost people, and excorting citizens out of potentially dangerous encounters with muggers. Occasionally, they might even catch a purse-snatcher or burglar in the act. As time passed, the Angels made no significant dent in crime rates, but they did show the almost-forgotten power of citizens who care about each other. The Angels were a modern, urban version of the Boy Scouts who helped little old ladies through subways instead...
SING HO for the life of middle class America, burdened with enormous taxes, college tuitions, and unappreciative children. Also large, split-level homes and two-car garages. In Split Image, the Stetson family doesn't have it so easy. Despite a burglar alarm and extensive insurance, these upstanding citizens lose their son--body and soul--to a cult...