Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...link was a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, stolen in Oakland, Calif., that was used as a getaway car. Investigators believe Patty rented garage space for the car in Sacramento the week before the robbery. The Sacramento police received a tip that the garage had been rented by a young woman who was acting suspiciously. TIME has learned that the police set up a stakeout on the car, which lasted from Monday through Friday, April 14 to 18. No one showed up. But on Saturdays and Sundays only a skeleton police force guards the relaxed city of Sacramento, so the watch...
...group called Soldiers United Victorious (SUV), probably represent no more than 6% of the total armed forces. They are concentrated in the Lisbon area, and may control as many as half of the eight units stationed near the capital. Many of the 30,000 weapons that have been stolen from the military in the past year are believed to have passed from leftist soldiers to members of the United Revolutionary Front...
...football seemed to be losing its importance on this autumn afternoon at Schoellkopf, for the next contingent to take the field was not sporting pads and helmets, but rather a large banner that red, "Remember: This game is being played on stolen INDIAN LAND...
...Ruling Class. The cliche "brilliantly uneven" might have been coined for this film. Too long and, finally, stupid, but some of the scenes are superb-the Marxist butler (stolen by Tom Stoppard for Travesties) and a skeletal, cobweb-bedecked House of Lords singing a rousing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise." Peter O'Toole plays a balmy earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. The opening hanging scene and the parody of La Boheme are worth the price of admission...
...military forces in northern Portugal still support the government, but units in the south are openly rebellious, and the two-camp situation could easily degenerate into civil war. Last week extreme leftist army commands were distributing arms to civilians in the south. At least 30,000 weapons have been stolen from the military, perhaps without much resistance, since the beginning of the revolution, and most of them are in the hands of leftists. When an officer of COPCON, Portugal's internal-security police, recently admitted that he had given 1,500 automatic rifles to left-wing civilians, General Otelo...