Word: plunderings
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...senses the mood of his country and is less friendly to the U.S. than in former times, apologized for the attack but testily suggested that the embassy "ponder such legitimate grievances" as the Plaza Miranda demonstrators voiced. Presumably he was alluding to often repeated charges that U.S. firms plunder Philippine mineral resources and that U.S. servicemen accused of local crimes are sometimes shipped home before they can stand trial. Nonetheless, when another band of protesters formed a picket line at the embassy three days later, police quickly dispersed them...
...been asking from the beginning. At the end, Townrow lives out the dream that has haunted him from the opening page. Like a saintly pilgrim, he sets off across Port Said harbor in a small boat, ferrying the coffin of the dead man whose estate he came to plunder, and then moves out to sea in search of an absolute emptiness in which to find himself...
...must adopt a new "double standard" of discrimination in favor of poor nations if it is to aid, rather than plunder, underdeveloped countries, Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal said last night...
...arms and inform on innocents. At last they are persuaded, and go off to conquer the world. It is not long, of course, before the world conquers them. Against photographer Raoul Coutard's haunted landscapes -interrupted by newsreel footage of atrocities and death - they loot and plunder, lifting skirts and wallets, but growing steadily poorer...
First, in most cases, came the teenagers, already milling on the crowded curbs. Once windows began to shatter and the bolder youngsters reached through the shards to pluck out plunder, the party was on. Next came the followers, still mostly teen-agers and men in their twenties. New York City's deputy police commissioner Jacques Nevard estimated that 80% of his area's looters were under 21, fully half 16 or under...