Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's no reason why video chains like Blockbuster or Videosmith couldn't be a target. It won't be long before an FBI agent nonchalantly waltzes in to rent a couple of dirty movies and waltzes in a few days later with orders to seize not just that store, but every one in the chain. That kind of multi-million dollar ante doesn't exactly encourage store managers to vigorously assert their free speech rights by testing what does and doesn't violate community standards...
...Wednesday a Coast Guard patrol of St. Croix reported "a complete breakdown of authority," and six cutters headed for the island to evacuate panicked vacationers. But the restoration of order did not begin until Thursday with the arrival of 1,200 U.S. military police, federal marshals and FBI agents -- the first time Army troops have been used to quell a civil disturbance since the riots in Washington following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Most of the escaped prisoners have been recaptured. What little there is left to protect is being guarded. St. Croix...
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands--Hundreds of heavily armed military police and FBI agents arrived yesterday at St. Croix to help stop looting that has plagued the island since it was ravaged by Hurricane Hugo...
...noon yesterday, three C-140 transport planes unloaded about 150 soldiers from Fort Bragg and four-wheel drive vans for 60 FBI agents and 50 federal marshals who also arrived yesterday...
Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh ordered 100 U.S. marshals and FBI agents to the island, and Coast Guard cutters evacuated frightened tourists and residents. Bush also authorized troops to help hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico...