Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortly before 4 p.m. and two guards began loading $1.6 million in cash. Suddenly three armed men in ski masks jumped out of a red van and opened fire. One guard was killed instantly and the other critically wounded. The three bandits and an accomplice dashed off with the loot. "They didn't even ask them to hand over the money," declared an incredulous witness. "They just blasted away...
...prairies. Instead of roping longhorns, they steal crude oil-right from the production fields. Driving tanker trucks capable of carrying up to 200 bbl. of crude, these so-called hot oilers simply pull up to remote storage facilities, drain the contents into their vehicles, then skedaddle with their liquid loot...
...fact that almost everyone knows his neighbor has long been a protection in the countryside. Murders, muggings or shootings have not notably increased, but house break-ins and auto and farm-equipment thefts have risen dramatically. One definite trend: thieves from urban areas ranging hundreds of miles to loot rural homes...
Missing were 26 sacks of money. But the bandits may be holding the bag in more ways than one. Their loot: 260,000 dimes. True, $26,000 will still buy a good deal, but unloading the shiny new dimes at banks would cause suspicion. The thieves may have to consider spending their money in mundane ways: toll booths, cigarette machines, newspaper racks, telephones. But can you call home again, . . . and again,. . . and again...
Wang, born in 1949 of a military family, is the same age as the People's Republic. As a teen-age Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution, he belonged to a rebel faction in his home town of Tianjin. There he once helped loot and burn a Roman Catholic church. Chastened by those outbursts, he has become a sculptor whose brooding images, carved from blocks of wood bought at a local firewood shop, show the evils of political fanaticism. "When I was a Red Guard," Wang says, pointing to his work, "I would have smashed all of this...