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...autocratic old ruling family. Since last December, under his command, the rebels have mounted dozens of armed attacks on Nepali villages and police posts. Typically, a few score guerrillas will pop out of the jungle, bloodlessly seize a town, run up the Nepali flag with a picture of Subarna, loot the local treasury, and then retreat the next day on the arrival of a detachment of Mahendra's palace guard. Despite Indian denials, Mahendra's government insists that the raiders have Indian backing. Says Foreign Minister Giri: "The rebel leadership is in India. The money comes from India...
...contact with Thompson, the insurance company paid off the collector $189,000 for his losses. The FBI therefore turned over to the company the nine paintings that it recovered. Thompson can have them back by returning the $189,000 to the insurance company. But the paint-napers damaged their loot, and Thompson says the insurance company owes him $70,000 to cover the restoration. The company argues that $7,750 would be ample. At that, Thompson was better off than the lenders to last July's Cézanne show on the Riviera, whose eight canvases have still...
Nizer has filled his book with courtroom strategy and insight. In a divorce case, a wife's plea for low alimony and a large property settlement generally means that she intends to remarry as soon as she gets her loot. Conversely, a demand for high alimony suggests that she has no immediate marriage prospects. Like the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Nizer also favors waving a manila envelope full of "documents" to discomfort witnesses during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand...
...which the New York Daily News replied: "A bank robber might just as well argue that the loot was justly his because he took it in a hurry without killing anybody and made a fast getaway...
...most had gone for the adventure. "Plenty of lolly [money] and plenty of fun," said a South African masseur who had joined Katanga's army. One adventurer nostalgically recalled a successful campaign against a U.N. supply depot. "We lived like kings on the loot we found there," he says. "A pile of corned beef and 150,000 bottles of beer...