Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Field House Theft...
...paying seven or eight hundred dollars for a bike, it doesn't hurt to invest $25 in a lock," said Don C. Nagel, a police official who statistically analyses crimes reported to the department. Nagel said that if people simply took the time to lock up their bikes, bike theft would not be such a problem...
Then we were flying at 75 m.p.h., screeching around corners and dodging late rush-hour traffic to get to a reported car theft...
...initial rush proved unnecessary, as the suspicious auto theft proved to be a sidewalk car wash, not a strip--down. In the next hour, though, we found two stripped automobiles and had them towed. Some had been stolen that same day, but we didn't catch anyone...
Western governments still bar the sale of large computers to the Soviets. Reason: the principal user of computer technology in the Soviet Union is the military. To get around the trade restrictions, the Soviets have relied on espionage. Through bribery and theft, clandestine armies of agents have obtained thousands of classified documents giving technical specifications for Western computers. Whenever possible, the Soviets have gone after the machines themselves. A favorite Soviet tactic is to set up bogus companies in Western Europe to buy computers and then smuggle them to Moscow. In recent years, the U.S. Government has seized several powerful...