Word: depotism
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...early hours of Saturday morning six gunmen, clad in black jumpsuits and woolen ski masks, raced up to the Brinks-mat Depot No. 7 in a drab row of industrial warehouses near Heathrow Airport, 15 miles west of London. Without apparent difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over...
...massacre in Parliament Square sent Budapest mad. The Soviet embassy was raided, Soviet automobiles fired, the contents of a Soviet bookshop burned. Workers fought their way into an arms depot at outlying Fot, got themselves machine guns. Others made gasoline bombs out of wine bottles. Soon Soviet armored cars were burning in the streets...
Meanwhile, the Administration could be heartened by the results of some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms to guerrillas in El Salvador, including a Sandinista army banner, rifle shell casings and a radio antenna. The discovery buttressed U.S. claims that Nicaragua routinely supplies the Salvadoran rebels by boat across the Gulf of Fonseca...
...major demonstrations against NATO's plan to begin deploying Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe by December, tensions are rising between peace activists and the 249,000 U.S. troops based in the country. Only last week West German police dismantled a "peace camp" outside the Mutlangen depot...
...troops as much as possible from West Germans to avoid direct confrontation has in part been counterproductive. "There is a strong feeling that Americans in general don't know much about Germany and don't care much about it," says Peter Bielke, who helped blockade the Mutlangen depot earlier this month. Asserts Reavis: "The Germans are now posing significant questions about their own country and the world around them, and many of the U.S. soldiers are not prepared to engage in that kind of discussion." In recognition of the problem, the U.S. command in West Germany reportedly...