Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police said that the arrest of four persons suspected of arms smuggling, including an American girl, Allison Thompson, 18, of Santa Barbara, Calif., was unrelated to the Sieff case. Speculation by police was that the group was connected to a plot to kill or kidnap the Moroccan ambassador in London. Police said that they recovered five automatic pistols and 150 rounds of ammunition from Miss Thompson after she landed at London's Heathrow Airport on a flight from Los Angeles...
...Sirica, it was an awkward situation. Perhaps McCord was offering incriminating information on others. But what if the envelope contained money, and some sinister plot to frame the judge was under way? Should he have any private dealings at all with McCord, if only to accept a letter? Should he just turn the envelope over to Government prosecutors and let them open it? But what if it contained something McCord did not want even the prosecutors to know...
...example to possible troublemakers, the government gave savage 12-to 20-year sentences to ten leftists convicted of organizing underground labor unions. To show that the state was secure and that the plot against Carrero Blanco had been uncovered, the Seguridad announced within 48 hours the results of its investigation. It pinpointed six members of the Basque separatist organization, the E.T.A., who it said were involved in the assassination...
...kidnaped from the scientist (Scott) and trained to blow up the President of the U.S. as he vacations aboard his yacht. The would-be assassins are a cartel of cliches: a loudmouthed, cigar-chomping Westerner, an unctuous Middle European, a fatherly Ivy League type. The movie makes their plot a matter of as much concern and surprise as whether Pearl White will be cut loose from the railroad ties be fore the locomotive flattens...
...movie's onerously monotonous plot proceeds through vignettes of Serpico's honesty being put to the test. Alternating with these are interludes of Serpico on the beat, wearing a variety of disguises, and at home, where his girl friend (Barbara Eda-Young) is assigned the traditional role of helpmeet and sounding board for the hero...