Word: crowbars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-trained forces of the South West Africa Police, including former members of the notorious "Koevoet" (crowbar) counterinsurgency unit, were waiting for the guerrillas. In the first large-scale clashes near the border town of Ruacana, 38 SWAPO guerrillas were mowed down by machine-gun fire, while two policemen were killed and 14 wounded. Elsewhere, the guerrillas fared little better. All told, at least 260 guerrillas and 28 Namibian security police were killed. UNTAG, which had less than one-fourth of its planned force on hand and barely 200 soldiers in the area of fighting, could do no more than...
...also, I rationalized, there are dangers in approaching some characters; once a street person took a crowbar to the Madonna statue in the Roman Catholic cathedral across the street...
...started to burn a little under the hood when the fire trucks came and blocked both streets," said Marissa Ghez '89, a Mass. Hall resident. "As they pried the hood open with a crowbar, flames burst out from underneath and the whole underside of the car began to burn...
...head when, as Ambassador to Pakistan in 1961, he took up with his driver's wife. The chauffeur discovered the liaison. Rushing into the Ambassador's office, where Kapitsa was using his couch as a bed, the infuriated husband clouted the diplomat on the head with a crowbar. He might have killed Kapitsa if aides had not come to his rescue. But the incident was forgiven because Kapitsa's expertise was needed...
...Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police roared up within three minutes to find both thief and painting gone...