Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed hour, Edgar Bronfman, taking no chance of disappointing the kidnapers, loaded the originally requested $4.6 million in the back of a station wagon. It was stuffed into black plastic garbage bags. He drove to a parking lot at Kennedy Airport, then, while FBI agents observed from a distance, walked to the specified phone booth. At 8:10 the phone rang. Using the Raven identification, the caller directed Bronfman to another phone booth, in the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines section of the terminal. He waited an hour with no further word. At 9:30 p.m., the kidnapers called the Yorktown...
...Estaing accepted the move "with serenity." Not so the islanders, who suddenly saw millions of French francs retreating along with French authority. Last week while Abdallah was away from the capital city of Moroni, the opposition leader and a force of 50 men took over the radio and TV station and caught Abdallah's Territorial Guard totally by surprise. "The mouthings of that man [Abdallah] are henceforth meaningless," declared Comoro's new chief, Prince Said Ibrahim Jaffar, who promised to restore close ties with France within the framework of independence and give Mayotte autonomy inside a Comoro federation...
...University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard of the José Domingo Cañas detention center...
...Station wagons and six-wheel camping behemoths descended last week like panzer divisions on state and national parks and forests; private campsites, with such names as Jellystone Park and Winnebago Springs, had a higher population density than a Manhattan city block. "Roughing it in the wilderness," as a Delaware state recreation official put it, "is when the air conditioning breaks down." In Wisconsin last July 4th weekend, 16,000 state-operated campsites were 99.7% occupied. Asked if he knew of an unspoiled area for a backpacking trip, a veteran outdoorsman in Michigan replied, "You're asking that question...
...endowed with the power to raise high winds and impersonate seemingly innocent citizens. When Fonda and Gates make a report to the police, they are met with jocular, good-ol'-boys suspicions about the amount of liquor consumed on the night in question. Stopping at a filling station or roadside store, they catch long looks and intimations of menace. There is no safety anywhere. The dog and the wives, all of whom have been provided with roughly the same opportunities for characterization, respond similarly to the situation: they jabber and yap and tremble. The wives, however, are spared Ginger...