Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pretty, bright-eyed Keisha Jackson, who was 13 and black, swung her roller skates and laughed with a group of friends after a lively evening at Detroit's Wheels Disco Roller Center. A 16-year-old black boy watched the group go by and squeezed the trigger of his stolen .32-cal. handgun. Keisha fell to the sidewalk, a bullet in her brain, and died a few days later. The boy has not explained to the police why he shot at the happy party...
Some experts argue that the profusion of handguns makes life easier for criminals. Guns stolen by burglars have often been used later in holdups and armed robberies. Moreover, many prosecutors warn that the law is not always on the potential victim's side. Careless and indiscriminate firing at a suspected intruder can be considered criminal. Still, insists Los Angeles Police Officer Loren Zimmerman: "I would rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." In any case, the arming of America is now out of control. One startling sign: making a spot check one recent night, private guards...
...Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...
Nearly every weekend, Phillip Sanders drove a busload of overnight gamblers some 200 miles from Oakland, Calif, to Reno, and back again. Sanders was arrested at the finish of his 37th trip and charged with grand theft and possession of stolen property; he had been driving buses that did not happen to belong to him. As a police official put it with considerable understatement, "He had a very low overhead...
Though other more valuable items--like those in the third-floor exhibit--are insured, the ones stolen are not, Bawden said...