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...armored Brink's truck pulled up to the Nanuet National Bank near suburban Nyack, N. Y., 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...
...robbers changed conveyances at a nearby shopping center and a few minutes later ran smack into a police roadblock. Two Nyack police officers who had stopped the lead vehicle, an orange U-Haul van, were shot dead by figures who leaped from the back of the van. Several of the suspects jumped into a second getaway car, a tan Honda. After it crashed three miles away, four people were arrested and all of the $1.6 million was recovered. A third car, a white Oldsmobile, sped away and was later found abandoned. Authorities began searching with bloodhounds and helicopters...
...authorities began following up on leads in the Nyack crime, they found links to an ever widening circle of radicals and outlaws, perhaps including members of the Black Liberation Army, a recently resurgent '70s group dedicated to the killing of police officers. The license plate on the abandoned Oldsmobile, for example, led to an apartment in East Orange, N. J. There a six-hour search turned up a cache of weapons and explosives, a manual on making bombs and hand-drawn floor plans of six New York City police stations. In a Bronx apartment, state and federal investigators found...
...King, Benny Rides Again), then teamed up with fellow Arranger Bill Finegan during the 1950s to form the innovative Sauter-Finegan orchestra, which used unusually diverse instrumentation to recast such tunes as Moonlight on the Ganges, April in Paris and The Doodletown Fifers; of a heart attack; in Nyack...
DIED. Boris Aronson, 81, Russian-born stage designer whose stylish, inventive sets for such Broadway shows as Cabaret and Zorba won him six Tony Awards; in Nyack, N.Y. An art student in Moscow and Paris before coming to New York in 1923, Aronson designed more than 100 theater, opera and ballet productions in 50 years, including a distinguished series of collaborations with Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures...