Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police were just about to give up their search of the lonely Amsterdam warehouse. Then, by chance, one of them spotted a lock on the corrugated-tin wall at the back of the building. The opening led to a false wall, complete with a secret door. As they burst through the hardboard front, members of the 70-man police unit suddenly came upon two soundproof and unheated concrete cells. Inside each one a man, clad only in filthy pajamas, lay shivering on a mattress and manacled to the walls. Three weeks after Beer Tycoon Alfred (Freddie) Heineken...
...tale of the missing documents began last summer, after the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research decided to refurbish six safes-actually bar-lock file cabinets that are kept in a vault. Their contents were to be transferred to microfilm, and the empty safes sent to Lorton Reformatory, a maximum-security prison in Virginia that had contracted to fix up Government furniture...
Even with Epps's policy and the special lock on the gate, the garden's day-to-day access is limited to Fly members, who use the lawn whenever they please, without requesting special permission. The fence at the garden's fringes effectively prevents everyone else from entering the land...
...criticism from the far right. Dealing with the Gordian knot of Middle East politics and coping with the inflammable situation in Lebanon, however, are tasks far more suited to a wrestler than an ideologue. Rumsfeld's first move will have to be an attempt to get a hammer lock on the shifting complexities of the situation in Lebanese "reconciliation talks" in Geneva...
Business returned to normal this week at two Mt. Auburn St. restaurants where picketing and a lock-out last Thursday ended in a settlement a day or two after the unrest began...