Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Easter Monday, more than a dozen men carrying shotguns and pistols climbed the 12-ft. wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National 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...
...characteristics are evident. Referring to the two art thefts, Giles Waterfield, director of the Dulwich Gallery, notes that "they relied on the same techniques, ignoring the alarm and calculating that they could get in and out within three to four minutes." In both the Conduit Street and the Security Express robberies, the criminals brandished guns and threatened the staff with violence; the thieves may also have had inside information or help. Says Frank Cater, commander of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, which concentrates on armed robbery in London: "Crime is as much a business as any other. Criminals have...
...Magaña government and the guerrillas remain slim, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone nonetheless returned from a twelve-day, ten-country "listening tour" of Central America in an unexpectedly sanguine mood about starting some kind of dialogue between the rebels and the Salvadoran government. He is expected to express an emphasis on reconciliation in his report to the President this week. Predicted one National Security Council staffer: "I would not be at all surprised to see a dialogue worked out." The Magaña government, backed by the Reagan Administration, has long insisted that the guerrillas must win their...
...continued to read his brief airport address in the clear, strong voice of a onetime actor, John Paul evoked Christ's words in Matthew 25:36 ("I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me") to express his personal concern for those detained under martial law. "I myself am not able to visit all the sick, the imprisoned, the suffering, but I ask them to be close to me in spirit," he said. Later, in what struck many listeners as a reference to the fact that he had been asked...
Similar scenes occurred throughout Chile last Tuesday, when a peaceful "Day Of Protest" suddenly turned ugly. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to express their unhappiness with the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The government cracked down amid scenes of violence that were the worst in almost ten years. When it was over, three people were dead, including a 14-year-old boy, hundreds were injured, and more than 1,300 had been arrested in ten cities...