Word: looter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power blackout. Unable to purchase food at stores shuttered by the general strike, thousands of Managuans turned to looting. People were seen carrying away sides of beef, cases of rum, huge bags of coffee and flour. "We will exchange what we have for what we need later," one woman looter ex plained. "We had nothing before." Swigging bottles of stolen beer, Somoza's guardsmen tried to direct the looters toward stores owned by opponents of the regime. Other shopkeepers simply threw their doors open to the pillagers, hoping that they could at least dissuade the mobs from destroying expensive...
...Harlem's Simon Furniture Co., took stock of his wrecked four-story store, behind the protective armor of private guards toting pistols and leashing attack dogs. Two brazen thieves ran in, grabbed a washing machine and headed to the street. One of the guards pointed his gun at a looter's head, three feet away. The intruder snarled: "You either kill me or I go out the door with the washer." He kept going, and the security man sheathed...
Despite selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club and advance compliments from Lelchuk's friend Philip Roth, American Mischief is not much more than another exploitive, topical novel. Lelchuk romps through the confusions and contradictions of today's beleaguered values-marriage, democracy, individualism-like a gratuitous looter in a cultural disaster area...
...safety through a river. Newswriter Frank Frosch, also of U.P.I, resembled Sawada in many ways. Like the photographer, Frosch chose the tough way to cover news. During the recent riots in Augusta, Ga., Frosch was the only reporter able to produce an eyewitness account of police killing a looter. He managed it by dodging black snipers' bullets half the night, police bullets the remainder. His Cambodian reporting was just as firsthand: he would listen to the military briefings, then set out to check them himself. Before Frosch's arrival in Cambodia, U.P.I, had suffered from embarrassing gaffes, even...
Charles Reid, a member of a special mayor's committee for easing tensions in the ghetto, reported seeing one suspected looter shot repeatedly in the back by a black policeman and his white partner. By midevening, Chief Bequest was asking for outside help to bolster his 130-man force, and Governor Lester Maddox responded by sending in 100 state troopers and 200 members of the Georgia National Guard; another 1,000 Guardsmen arrived the following day. By morning, most of the violence was over...