Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign has picked up in the last few days, but the recent surge of support has probably come too late. "I think I can win," Sargent said at a recent press breakfast. " No, I have no new polls, but I just came from an MBTA station and I have the sense that the people are with...
Henry Doss of Chicago kept a .38-cal. revolver for protection at the West Side gas station where he worked as an attendant. Early one Sunday morning, while attempting to thwart a robbery, he pulled the trigger and accidentally killed his 14-year-old son, who was wrestling with the intruder. The intruder was a 16-year-old girl who was packing her own .32-cal. pistol...
Instead, Papadopoulos found himself under arrest, with orders to pack a small bag-fast. At a police station, the charges were spelled out: "plotting to undermine the peaceful progress" of the elections and "developing subversive activities." Papadopoulos also faces charges that he was "morally responsible for the premeditated murder" of 34 Greeks by soldiers during demonstrations last November, a crime that carries the death penalty. Meanwhile, Papadopoulos' financial dealings during his years in power are being probed. His wife Despina is under investigation for receiving money from KYP, the Greek intelligence agency, without performing any known service...
...longtime despair of critics, the American political system often functions like a gigantic lubricating station for squeaky wheels. Responding to the skillful pressure of special-interest lobbyists, Congress and successive U.S. Administrations have put into effect myriad federal laws and regulations that stifle competition and tend to raise prices to consumers for the benefit of groups ranging from fruitgrowers in Florida to maritime unions in San Francisco and New York. Regulatory agencies, too, frequently act as guardians of the industries that they are supposed to regulate rather than as protectors of the consumer's interest...
...mention the conversation to his superior." That was only one of many other examples of incompetence. Among them: the revolver used in two of the Tate killings, which had been found by a young boy and turned over to the police, was routinely filed away in a Van Nuys station house, where it remained unexamined for months. The L.A. police department, meanwhile, sent flyers to police across the country to keep an eye out for the Tate murder weapon...