Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lost the 'Aloha' Feeling" [June 1]. As you reported, two teenagers recently hijacked a busload of Japanese visitors. However, you failed to mention that the community contributed more than $22,000 to assist the victims, a sum twice that lost in the robbery. Later, when the stolen cash and valuables were returned, the Japanese donated the money to a special fund to assist visitors who become victims. No, the aloha feeling has not been lost...
...street vendor, one of about 7,500 who pay New York City $25 a year for a license to sell their wares on the sidewalk. No one knows how many more ply the same trade illegally, or how much of their merchandise "fell off a truck," i.e., was stolen. But marketplaces are in plain view nearly everywhere. Weather permitting, and especially on fine spring days, certain blocks in midtown and the Wall Street area take on the pace and color of oriental bazaars. Shoppers can buy anything from hot dogs to fake diamonds without ever going through a door...
...ofon, now 77, must return the paintings whose value is now estimated at up to $5 million apiece, to the Art Collection of Weimar, a museum in East Germany. In his 87-page decision, Mishler wrote that the museum "has demonstrated that the Dürers were stolen and that it is entitled as owner to possession." Of the 7,900 paintings listed as "destroyed and vanished" between 1939 and 1945 in East and West Germany, the Dürers are the only notable works that have been found...
...ofon calls the verdict "wrong and unfair." Instead of granting a motion for summary judgment, he argues, Judge Mishler should have submitted the case to a jury to decide whether the Weimar museum had really proved its contention that the Dürers were stolen. He also maintains that he bought the paintings in good faith and that no one could prove that the seller had not somehow acquired valid title to them in Germany. Therefore, he contends, the German law of "good faith acquisition" should protect his ownership. Says...
October 3--Two thieves walk off with a $10,000 Oriental rug from the Adams House Junior Common Room in the middle of the afternoon. Two students saw the incident but do not realize it was a theft. The stolen rug is recovered on October 9, though the thieves had cut it into two pieces, apparently thinking they could sell it more easily in small pieces...