Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The police do not take the Red Berets very seriously, partly because they distrust vigilantes and have come to feel that active help from "civilians" is more trouble than it is worth. But Sliwa intends to continue the patrols. "It didn't take the muggers long to change their...
Such compliments in ghetto slang are known as "zooping you up." The 13 are zooped up a good deal these days. Says Sliwa: "This is partly why the guys do this. They really get a kick out of being recognized." It is nearly 4 a.m. Sunday and the Berets are...
As explosive as the blast itself was a bomb of a question: Who had pulled off the nuclear sabotage? An environmental organization calling itself Groupe des Écologistes Français claimed responsibility. No one had ever heard of the group before the explosion, and French authorities dismissed its claims...
The early spring tourists who went to see Rome's magnificent Renaissance landmark last week got a shock: the exquisite Piazza del Campidoglio was blocked off and obscured by police barricades and scaffolding. Blast damage showed on the graceful columns, and the main portal of the Palazzo Senatorio, Rome...
The single-family dwellings that used to house most of the city's population of 1.3 million have been replaced by towering apartment blocks, "because they are more efficient to heat," as one official explains. Journalists were discouraged from wandering off on their own down side streets. But, even...