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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attendant at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology sprayed mace at two visitors from Trinidad after a brief verbal altercation on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Museum Visitors Get Maced | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...visitors, a couple and their grown son, declined to press charges against the attendant. The mace was only directed at the father and son. The family left the country yesterday...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Museum Visitors Get Maced | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

When the visitors exited the building, the attendant left the admissions desk and followed them down to the door, Donaldson said. "More words were exchanged at the door and the attendant sprayed mace on the challenged party and son," the police report said. "All three entered the museum which is when the police arrived...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Museum Visitors Get Maced | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...next day Beavis put a knife to the throat of the boy who raped Rainbow. "I couldn't do it," he says. "I couldn't slit his throat." So the boy pulled out a can of Mace and sprayed Beavis in the face. He blindly stumbled out into the night, hands tearing at his face, eyes and lungs burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...trying to strike back. Last Tuesday, just after midnight, 20,000 soldiers and police in camouflage gear swept through several dozen Moscow hotels, businesses and banks, hoping to cripple the criminal gangs. In the meantime, citizens are afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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