Word: matting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus last week did the Marines begin pulling out of Lebanon - a complex and potentially harrowing retreat that must be staged under the gunsights of the Muslim militia men who flank them on three sides. Men and matériel will move across a strip of uncontested land directly west of the Marine compound to the beach and out to sea. So far at least, the huge camp breaking was proceeding with remarkable smoothness. Summed up Base Commander Brigadier General James Joy: "The militiamen know our position is that if we are attacked, we are going to defend ourselves very...
...telling moment in the day's first meet, though, came in the 167-lb, clash between WPI's Paul Wyman and Harvard freshman Kevin McGinty. Fifty seconds into that match--which marked the overall contest's midway mark--Wyman sent McGinty to the side of the mat with blood running from a cut eyelid. Harvard was forced to take notice--Worcester meant business...
...early hours of Saturday morning six gunmen, clad in black jumpsuits and woolen ski masks, raced up to the Brinks-mat Depot No. 7 in a drab row of industrial warehouses near Heathrow Airport, 15 miles west of London. Without apparent difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over...
...Heathrow robbery was no less polished. Somehow the thieves evaded all the warehouse's closed-circuit TV cameras. As one of the largest gold transporters in Britain, Brinks-mat was hardly lax about security. "The whole place was alarmed," said a worker at a nearby warehouse. "As soon as one of the vans would arrive, the doors would close behind it." Having penetrated the 150-foot-long warehouse, the crooks headed straight for the room in which the gold was stored. As a Scotland Yard official told TIME: "The gang must have had 'inside information' from someone...
There was barely a murmur of forebod- among the 200 employees of the Louis Globe-Democrat when they were summoned to the paper's seedy fifth-floor conference room. One reporter had signed a $70,000 mortgage note on his way to work; some colleagues speculated mat the meeting would concern a charity drive Seemingly, no one was prepared tor the announcement from Publisher O. Duncan Bauman: "The Globe-Democrat will print its final edition Dec 31 ending 131 years of daily publication...