Word: plot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Development and its perennial partner, political strife, also continue on the other side of the Square. Controversy surrounds a prized plot of land recently sold by St. Paul's Catholic Church. The buyer, H.J. Davis, Inc., plans to build 90 to 100 condominiums on the parking lot across DeWolfe St. from Quincy House...
Others in Higgins' liberally pleated plot are not so fastidious about rules and regulations. Tibbetts' co-defendants get long prison sentences, but the mastermind is found innocent by reason of insanity. A few years in a state hospital and he is once again stirring up trouble and profits as an arms dealer hiding in Morocco. By this time his former lover is the mistress of his former prosecutor...
...plane, which was on its proper track. According to the NTSB, which is cooperating in the investigation with the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, the Delta crew had not been supplied with oceanic charts to display the coordinates of their assigned flight path. As a result, the crew "did not plot their present or predicted positions upon crossing waypoints...
Although it may have seemed unlikely, there was suspicion that former President Ferdinand Marcos, 69, now living in Hawaii, had a hand in the plot. In July U.S. officials revealed they had squelched a Marcos plan to buy an estimated $25 million in weapons for a coup attempt. Marcos said of last week's affair, "We are not involved," though he added that he hoped Aquino was toppled and he would gladly accept an invitation to return. No such request came from the rebels...
...November Ramos announced that he had blocked a coup attempt by Enrile and his backers, including Honasan. In January pro-Marcos troops moved again, holding a radio station in suburban Manila for 61 hours before surrendering. In July four officers linked to Marcos were arrested in connection with another plot...