Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...García thought he was safe in Texas, he soon learned otherwise. According to McAllen police, two thugs kidnaped García at gunpoint early last month and spirited him to Mexico. There he was handed over to Mexican authorities, who slapped him behind bars on fraud charges. Garcia told officials that he feared for his life, probably with good reason. The day after his jailing, another union boss, Oscar Torres Pancardo, was killed in a mysterious crash. In an apparent attempt to disguise the circumstances, his bodyguards fatally shot Torres' driver in the head. At a rare...
...American embassy in Peking sums up the Chinese-American confrontation as the three Ts: Taiwan, Technology, Trade. In each of the three there is a different family of interlocking problems; but it is only over the issue of Taiwan that they could lead to gunpoint confrontation...
...Civil Rights Division is pursuing 28 other slavery investigations, two of which will soon come to trial. In Tyler, Texas, three people are charged with forcing a group of twelve Mexican migrants at gunpoint to replant timberland; that case is scheduled for trial on Oct. 3. In Los Angeles, ten members of an Indonesian family have been charged with arranging the illegal entry into the U.S. of 32 other Indonesians, who were allegedly put to work as domestic servants in California for little...
...West End. But in Conduit Street, a smart thoroughfare filled with fashionable shops just off New Bond Street, a daring crime was in progress. As the crowds streamed past the armored glass windows of Bonds jewelers' as yet unopened store, the staff inside was being held at gunpoint by five men, three disguised in monkey masks. After forcing the employees to open the vault, the robbers rifled trays of uncut gems and antique Indian jewelry, strewing less valuable items on the floor. Thirty minutes later they escaped with a haul valued at $15.7 million...
...problem that threatened to tarnish the good-guy image. A 1978 cover story in the now defunct New Times magazine reported that twelve years earlier, while a law student at Marquette University, Cianci had been accused by a 20-year-old Milwaukee telephone operator of having raped her at gunpoint in his apartment. Cianci sued the magazine for $12 million but settled out of court when New Times' parent company paid him $8,500; it also gave Cianci a letter of apology "for any inconvenience to you and your family...