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...entrance on a Saturday night, and -- presto! -- in they walked. They ) immobilized the two night guards, ignored the museum's security system (which was not connected to the police precinct) and then spent two hours pulling paintings off the walls and out of their frames. Then exeunt: a clean getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Boston Theft ReflectsThe Art World's Turmoil | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

Essentially, Padre is a destination for the younger generation. Witness the dismay of families who come there looking for a peaceful getaway...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Parties Never Stop On This Texas Island | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

...phases of Operation Just Cause went off as planned. Shortly before midnight Tuesday, guests at Panama City's ritzy Marriott Caesar Park Hotel were awakened by sporadic shooting. A team of Navy SEALs (sea, air and & land capability) rushed the nearby private Paitilla Airport, where Noriega kept a potential getaway Learjet. In a brief but vicious firefight the SEALs overwhelmed guards, secured the landing strip and destroyed the aircraft. But four SEALs were killed, perhaps the earliest casualties of the conflict. Other SEALS died while disabling boats Noriega could have used to make an escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Dragon's Teeth | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...test results, praising the car's "respect for the people who must live with it." A Trabi graced the centerfold of Autobild's "Best Autos of 1989" edition. The Frankfurter Allgemeine-Zeitung even compared the Trabant with the Porsche Carrera. Both, said the paper kindly, are "useful as getaway cars," but the Trabi has twice the Carrera's trunk space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation How Do You Double the Value Of a Trabant? | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...were going to Czechoslovakia for a short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat. They packed just a pair of knapsacks, then took off on what would be a five-day odyssey to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seizing The Moment | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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