Word: looters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riots in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Such lunacy was perhaps only exceeded by his speech condemning "insidious relativism" in July, 1968, when he declared that "[r]elativism is epitomized by the agonizing of a police officer who couldn't bring himself to kill a looter over a pair of shoes...
...town's courtyards. Outside the home of the region's despised military commander, his band's tubas, trombones and horns were piled up to form a barrier in the middle of the street, then littered with thousands of pages of musical scores. "It was their music," said one looter. "We don't need to hear it anymore...
Plunderers seeking gold were the first to find the shining key that would unlock a door to the past. In 1987 a local looter stumbled upon a royal tomb deep inside an adobe-brick pyramid near the village of Sipan in the Lambayeque River valley of Peru's northern coastal plain. The find was pillaged, and many artifacts from it soon began showing up on the international market for stolen art. Fortunately, three other tombs that have since been discovered in the pyramid were protected and excavated under the eye of an expert. As a result, a team of workers...