Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Though the increase in theft and violence cannot be pinned to any single cause, many blame the influx of outsiders, which has increased the gap between rich and poor. Among the most downtrodden: the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians. Those descendants of the islands' original Polynesian settlers make up less than 20% of the total population of 975,000. (Of the rest, 26% are Caucasian, 25% are of Japanese stock and the balance Filipino, Chinese and Korean, among other ethnic groups). Poorly educated and relegated for the most part to the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the Hawaiians...
Still, Fort Chaffee is scheduled to be emptied of Cubans by August. There is no timetable for getting 1,766 Cubans out of the decrepit Atlanta federal penitentiary. They and 50 compatriots in other U.S. prisons have criminal records ranging from simple theft (473 cases) to murder (121). "We've got some good Cubans here," says Mike Trominski, the Atlanta prison's ranking immigration official. "We have others we never want to hit the streets...
...issues like divestiture of South Africa-related investments or guidelines for accepting alumni gifts Students did once support a referendum demanding provision of toilet paper to the River Houses, and the University later complied. But administrators emphatically insisted, it wasn't the student survey but more direct tactics--the theft of massive quantities of toilet paper from Harvard buildings--that swayed them. The administration of this University looks at what students ask, decides if it is pleased and then makes up its institutional mind all by itself...
April 13, 7:24 a.m.--Police investigated the theft of a 14-lb. ham, six pounds of cooked roast beef, and a ten-lb. salami from the Greenhouse Cafe. The thieves broke open a lock on a refrigerator to steal the food...