Word: leggatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What enraged the federal opposition parties, and dismayed Trudeau's Liberals, was not simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that they felt free to spy on a legal, democratically constituted political party. "What is happening in this country?" cried anguished New Democratic M.P. Stuart Leggatt. "Th government should try to distinguish be tween subversion and political dissent...
...thefts, whether for ransom or resale, have declined in England over the past few years, thanks to the formation of Scotland Yard's highly efficient art squad in 1968. "It simply does not pay criminals to steal works of art in this country," says London Art Dealer Hugh Leggatt. "The police in Britain have always been far ahead of their foreign counterparts in detecting and recovering lost works of art." In its first four years, the art squad-which now keeps a computer index of 5,000 missing works-recovered about $30 million worth of paintings, sculpture and antiques...