Word: stakeout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Portuguese colony of Macao, Madonna, 27, and Sean Penn, 25, fled a welcoming crowd, only to be ambushed outside their hotel room by Hong Kong Standard Correspondent Leonel Borralho. A long scuffle with Penn and bodyguards ensued, after which Borralho sued for $1 million. Two days later, reporters on stakeout took off after the couple, and the resulting car chase created a huge traffic jam, with bystanders cheering Madonna on. The pair finally consented to a photo session, though Penn sacked his publicity agent for failing "to keep the press from us." They are scheduled to leave this week...
When the Scotland Yard sentinels show no sign of leaving. Stewart is forced to come forth with an explanation. The object of this stakeout is Bob and Barbara's best friends, the Krogers, a Canadian couple linked to a Russian spy Stewart offers profuse assurance that he has no evidence to link the Krogers, but one must be sure, mustn't one? Barbara, despite her deep reservations about the spy business, cannot summon the courage to oppose the self-assured Stewart. She becomes sucked into the labyrinth of espionage-age paranoia; lying to her daughter, to her best friend...
While Mondale was on the phone to the also-rans, Ferraro slipped out a side door of the St. Francis Hotel and was whisked into a waiting car; Kyros jumped in a block away from his stakeout post in front of a department store. At Oakland Airport, they boarded a Learjet owned by Tom Rosenberg, Mondale's Illinois Finance Chairman, who had been asked by Johnson that afternoon to have the plane flown to San Francisco. Ferraro, chatting with Rosenberg and Kyros on the flight to Anoka airport, a small field about ten miles from North Oaks, remarked that...
Joining a police stakeout in the neighborhood, Tomasello spotted Stander riding a bicycle. After a short chase, the cornered fugitive raised his arms and shouted, "I give up!" Then he seized Patrolman Michael Von Stetina's shotgun and pointed it at the officer. Von Stetina killed Stander with three pistol shots. Even South Africa's Minister of Justice seemed saddened by the demise of his erstwhile nemesis, sending condolences to Stander's family...
Marielito arrests are so numerous and so frequent that police have given up trying to keep track of them. Last year Los Angeles police had to abandon a purse-snatching stakeout across from the park 20 minutes after setting it up. They caught so many offenders that they ran out of arresting officers. Even those who are apprehended show surprising fearlessness and contempt for the law. "For guys used to standing in a four-by-four cell all day, our prisons are like country clubs," observes Detective Alvarez. Many in the police force feel overwhelmed. The situation, says Plainclothes Patrolman...