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Mark Thatcher likes his privacy. at the whitewashed mansion he shares with his wife and two children in Constantia, outside Cape Town, security guards patrol along the neatly trimmed hedges, and a closed-circuit television camera keeps watch from the top of a wrought-iron security gate. Such security measures are common in South Africa's wealthier suburbs, but neighbors describe Thatcher, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a security-obsessed recluse. "He's a mysterious character," says one. For such a private man, last Wednesday's morning raid by South Africa's Scorpion police...
Last Thursday 250 victims of Timothy McVeigh's bomb--some who survived the blast, others who lost loved ones to it--were granted their request to witness his execution on closed-circuit television. In announcing this departure from normal procedure, Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke of the need "to close this chapter in their lives" and emphasized "the magnitude of this case." (There are too many mourners, given the 168 killed, to fit into the prison observation room...
Those who did not make it into the main roomwere ushered into two Kennedy School classroomswith closed-circuit television. "They were filledto capacity and held close to 100 people in eachroom," Caputo said...
...marketing boys are having a field day. It's billed as "The Battle in Seattle" and "The War at the North Pacific Shore." Closed-circuit pay-per-view deals, cablevision, network television, international satellite link-ups. Even "Up Close and Personal" segments on such soon-to-be American sports heroes as Dutch winger, Ruud Gullitt. He takes it one game at a time...
...Heathrow robbery was no less polished. Somehow the thieves evaded all the warehouse's closed-circuit TV cameras. As one of the largest gold transporters in Britain, Brinks-mat was hardly lax about security. "The whole place was alarmed," said a worker at a nearby warehouse. "As soon as one of the vans would arrive, the doors would close behind it." Having penetrated the 150-foot-long warehouse, the crooks headed straight for the room in which the gold was stored. As a Scotland Yard official told TIME: "The gang must have had 'inside information' from someone...