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...board a train. Meanwhile, the police were usually checking automobile traffic on the roads out of town. The trains were not always safe, however, as one of the bandits learned after robbing a bank at Brives. When gendarmes began searching the Paris-bound train, Antoine Diez, carrying a satchel containing $14,000, hid outside one of the cars by holding on to two hand rails. Nearly 300 miles later, just outside Paris, the exhausted Diez threw the satchel into a field, jumped off the train, and walked into the city. When he returned for the money the next...
...That he might be spared the Catholic education, the delusive and debilitating colonist's education George himself received is one of the chief concerns of George's letters to his parents. On August 7 Jonathan went into the spectators section of the courtroom in Marin County carrying a black satchel. When the judge came in he took a gun from the satchel, pointed it at Judge Haley, and said, "All right, gentlemen, I'm taking over now." He handed another gun to the defendant, James D. McLain. McLain had a guard remove his handcuffs. He turned to the jury...
SYBIL is a typical Radcliffe street walker. She has typically long dark hair and lugs her books in a typically purple canvas satchel. She looks a lot like your roommate, or maybe, more like your girlfriend. Sometimes she rides a bicycle to class, but the morning under surveillance she has decided to walk...
...airliner passengers walked hurriedly toward the pilot's cabin, one of them carrying a plastic flight bag. Pointing a rusty revolver at a cable and switch that protruded ominously from his satchel, one of them shouted to the captain: "Change course or I'll press the switch and the plane will blow up!" With a small compass that he carried in his pocket, the hijacker made sure that the plane was really changing direction...
...quandary about what to do with the big plane, which had not figured in their plans. Apparently the two skyjackers had seized it on their own initiative. It was too large to land on the desert at Revolution Airstrip. At Beirut, guerrilla demolition experts brought a satchel full of explosives on board. One of them remained in the plane with the two hijackers and began wiring up explosive charges in the cabin and toilets during the flight to Cairo. The P.F.L.P. had decided to blow up the plane in the Egyptian capital as a sign of its disgust with Nasser...