Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas of New York are being burned systematical!) block by block as frightened resident; move out, slumlords make no move to protect their all but empty...
...Aviv, Ham Operator Gurdus sat huddled before his set.* In Bonn, a member of Schmidt's crisis group recalled later, "You could have heard a speck of dust move...
Inside South Africa, both the black and white communities initially were almost too stunned to protest. On the day of the government's move, cordons of security forces sealed off Soweto before any demonstrations could get under way. More than 150 blacks and Indians-and a handful of white sympathizers-were arrested in protests that followed the first shock. As TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter reports: "There was little joy in Pretoria. Even among Afrikaners, the mood was one of apprehension and depression...
...Glos manifesto is bound to embarrass and anger the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek. Still, it seemed unlikely that the government would crack down on the signers so close to President Carter's scheduled visit to Warsaw in December. In Poland, such a move would only precipitate more protest...
...move comes at a time when many Israelis are expressing doubts about the effectiveness of their Premier. His health alone has caused widespread unease; Begin left a hospital and returned to work last week, but there are fears that the damage to his heart has not had time to heal. More than that, however, there is a growing concern that he has offered little in the way of new domestic programs except to allow more settlements in the occupied territories; the economy is drifting, and the country is I heading toward an alarming 30% inflation rate this year alone...