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Jack Morse, deputy chief of Harvard Police, said that currently the police have no leads. He said that usually when something like this is stolen, officers check pawn shops and used furniture stores for the item...
...troops shot down an American ! Fairchild C-123K cargo plane over Nicaragua three weeks ago. The prosecution would attempt to try the U.S. Government itself for "Yanqui interventions" dating from the 1850s. Complained former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell, a member of Hasenfus' defense team: "He is an absolute pawn...
...tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against Big Business and the "Washington power brokers." A blond, soft-spoken Mormon, Reid has tried to peg Santini as a turncoat and a pawn of the Establishment. But he has refrained from criticizing Reagan or bringing up the subject of Senate control. "It wouldn't sell well in Nevada," he explains. Reid even displays an autographed photo of himself and the President on his office wall. Reid and Santini are running virtually neck and neck...
...filled with U.S. military secrets. Since Zakharov did not have diplomatic immunity, a federal judge ordered him held without bail. The subsequent arrest and jailing of Daniloff offered the Soviets both a bargaining chip and a choreographed symmetry. Or at least so it seemed to them until the sloppy pawn-for-pawn gambit escalated...
...from the Mediterranean if the U.S. did likewise. The ploy was scarcely plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests in the Mediterranean is considered vital and stretches back 40 years. Gorbachev's offer, said one official, was in effect asking the U.S. to sacrifice a knight for a pawn. On Saturday, Gorbachev went still further by calling for an early summit with Reagan in Europe to discuss his proposed ban on testing nuclear weapons. But Donald Regan pointed out that the Soviet leader had already agreed to a summit in a different locale. "The United States," said Regan. "That...