Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gunman then chased a group of fleeing employees through a side exit, shooting one man, who later died in the parking lot. Bolting several doors, he sought out workers cowering under tables and in cubicles, killing three people in one work station, five in another. Debbie Smith was sorting letters when the shooting started. "I froze. I couldn't run. He came to shoot the clerks in the box section next to mine. I just knew I was next." But as she hid, Sherrill passed her by and opened fire on the next section. As Smith ran for the front...
When a young Tustin, Calif., girl walked into the local police station just after midnight and turned over a bag containing some $2,800 worth of cocaine, it seemed to be a case of a good citizen doing her part in the national war against drugs. She also produced a small quantity of marijuana, about two dozen pills, drug paraphernalia, $1,900 in cash and a .25-cal. handgun, thus providing sufficient evidence for officers to arrest Bobby Dale Young, 49, a bartender, and his wife Judith Ann Young, 37, a U.S. bankruptcy-court clerk. But there was an extraordinary...
Lily Lee Chen sputters when she recalls a sign at a local gas station, WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE MONTEREY PARK PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? For Chen, the placard is testimony to a conflict that threatens to split Monterey Park, a city of about 59,000 next to Los Angeles, along ethnic lines. During the past 25 years, the Asian population has grown from 5% to 40%, and the increasingly prosperous city has been tagged the Asian Beverly Hills. But changes have bred resentment. A cultural cross fire over language -- English vs. Chinese -- has erupted in Monterey Park, with...
When three policewomen appeared at the family mansion in Karachi late last week to make their arrest, the head of the house appeared defiant. Before being driven away to the police station, she turned to a group of onlookers and scornfully declared, "So, you see that leading a rally is not permitted in Pakistan. Today the government is coming out with its true colors." Thus was Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto, 33, the popular daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, arrested in a sudden return of repression by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. It was a backward step...
...protest quickly landed Maltret at a Paris police station, where he was charged with flying at an altitude of less than 6,500 feet above the city without permission. The former navy flyer may face three months' imprisonment, a $10,000 fine and loss of his pilot's license...