Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also suspected of being among a group who in March hijacked a police car in the Irish Republic. Police believe that she also helped write the ransom note demanding $1,250,000 plus the transfer of four jailed Irish terrorists from Britain to Ulster in return for the masterpieces stolen from Sir Alfred...
...radical cheek. Sarah Cousins, 24, daughter of Saturday Review/World Editor Norman Cousins, was accused of smuggling a fugitive across the U.S.Canadian border. Under a coat in the back of her car was Israeli Rabbi Aharon Ron, 47, convicted in the U.S. for conspiring to sell $800,000 in stolen securities. Ron jumped bail to visit his family in Israel while his case was pending appeal. Sarah and he met 18 months ago when she was a dropout. "He has been a constructive force in her life," said Cousins, relating how Ron persuaded Sarah to go back to Columbia. Last week...
...game that mattered only for the record books, LaCivita went wild at the plate, going five for six with two home runs, seven runs batted in, a stolen base and three runs scored. The team pounded out 12 hits altogether, as it compiled a 10-6 lead heading into the ninth inning...
Easier Than Heroin. Taylor, for one, is convinced that terrorists could actually fashion the stolen material into a bomb in a matter of weeks. To achieve the biggest bang, the bombmakers would probably choose to convert their purloined material into a metal. Plutonium and U-235 can be transported as compounds that do not readily lend themselves to the making of the most efficient weapons, but the techniques for purification are, says Taylor, in some respects no more difficult than refining heroin in an illicit laboratory...
...Indianapolis, a six-month investigative effort by a team of Star reporters turned up a pattern of police corruption connected with prostitution, narcotics and stolen goods. The newspaper series caused Mayor Richard Lugar to fire the city's three top law-enforcement officials and bring in a former Secret Service officer to clean...