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Within days his efforts paid off when a pawnbroker in Central Square became suspicious of a customer who tried to sell him a handmade flute for $30. It turned out to be Shibutani's, and when the thief tried to flee, he dropped most of the other equipment...
Bonner came under savage attack last week in Izvestia. The government daily accused Bonner of pushing her husband into anti-Soviet activities. The commentary described her as a "shallow, resentful and greedy person" whose primary goal was to flee to the West "even if it meant over her husband's dead body." Izvestia also repeated allegations that the U.S. embassy in Moscow had involved Sakharov's wife in a "provocative operation...
...American Stock Exchange about trading irregularities, the SEC began questioning Clark and Brant. At one point, Brant showed up at Clark's law office in a "state of high emotional excitement," according to Clark. He was brandishing a thick stack of $100 bills and said he wanted to "flee the jurisdiction" by going to Brazil. Although the two visited the Brazilian consulate, the trip was never made...
...meetings, they argued that passage would seriously threaten Switzerland's position as the world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...
...sightsee and picnic. Inexplicably, however, they drove past their destination along the coastal road. They crossed Christian Phalange and Lebanese Army checkpoints without incident, then suddenly spotted a Syrian checkpoint straight ahead. Realizing that they had strayed into hostile territory, they turned the car around and tried to flee. Syrian soldiers opened fire on the retreating auto and gave chase. By the time a special commando team from Israel had been sent to the scene in an effort to rescue its stranded countrymen, the three officials had been captured. They were flown to Damascus, where the Syrian government announced that...