Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Posing as clerks at a bogus Oceanside, Calif., store called Golden State Surplus, authorities bought pilfered flak jackets, combat knives, .45-cal. magazines and sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have...
...there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside the Trans-Siberian Railway egg is a golden Trans-Siberian Railway train. Everyone should have one. But for those who cannot, this lavishly illustrated, well-documented history, Masterpieces from the House of Faberge (Abrams; 192 pages; $35), is a handsome substitute...
...adjacent U.S. ambassador's residence in the Beirut suburb of Baabda. But then the plane took a second turn over the compound, and Lebanese soldiers, suspecting a terrorist attack, opened fire with antiaircraft guns. Fortunately they missed their target, a private plane owned by the Saudi Arabian Golden Contracting Co. The pilot had veered off course while approaching Beirut Airport. Aerial traffic controllers were able to guide the jet to a safe landing...
...Pittsburgh, a graduate of Duquesne, age 23. Taylor is just 18 but approves of higher education and has been accepted at Philadelphia's Temple University. "I'm going to start with three courses, if I can handle it. Business administration," he said, a useful major. The four golden stars, plus one other celebrity practically as good as gold, will do seven-figure business the next two years, funded mostly...
...negotiations with the Akali party and had in fact conceded to many of the Sikh demands that did not affect the status of the other Indian states. These include the constitutional recognition of Sikhism as a distinct religion different from Hinduism and the arrangement for broadcast rights from the Golden Temple on the All India Radio. The contentious issues, however, have been the very demands of religious, political, economic and territorial nature that involve other states and therefore dismiss the feasibility of simple bilateral bargaining between the Sikhs and the central government. Rights over the Punjab river waters, the transfer...