Word: coffining
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They had to pick the twelve triple-combination locks that secured the coffin, but somehow the grave robbers at Buenos Aires' Chacarita Cemetery managed the task. Their take: a ceremonial saber and the hands of Juan Peron, who was perhaps Argentina's most revered President. After the break-in was discovered two weeks ago on the 13th anniversary of Peron's death, a group called "Hermes IAI and the 13" claimed responsibility for the theft and demanded $8 million in return for the severed parts. If the ransom was not met by this week, the group threatened, Peron's hands...
...have fled back to Mexico. William Harrington, assistant chief of the El Paso Border Patrol, conceded that "we may never get our hands on him." The closest Harrington may come is the coyote's two confederates, whose sordid business led them to death in the boxcar that became a coffin...
...conservative jurist, the President hopes to shape the legal balance into the next century. -- Bork' s personal style and temperament are seemingly at odds with his strict constructionist philosophy. -- The seven Democratic presidential contenders fire mostly blanks in a Firing Line debate. -- A Texas boxcar turns into a grisly coffin...
...parade snaked through the streets of Davao City last week, but the occasion was hardly festive. As thousands of residents on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao watched, the marchers carried 105 white wooden coffins containing the remains of civilians said to have been murdered by the Communist-led New People's Army. Headed by Army Lieut. Colonel Franco Calida, the procession included 3,000 members of the Alsa Masa, one of more than a score of private paramilitary groups that are waging war against the N.P.A. Every so often, pallbearers opened a coffin and showed the remains to onlookers...
...Jarvis Basnight. Freddie Banks leads an offensive machine that has doubled the three-point output of any of the UNLV's early-round opponents, and the power game of Armon "Hammer" Gilliam (23.2 p.p.g., 9.3 r.p.g.) will put the nail in the coffin...