Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
...thus a public trust conventionally subject to accountability? Or is the theater instead the work onstage, which rises or falls according to the individuality and vision of the company's artistic leader? Ball, who regarded the ouster of an artist by a board of directors as a kind of theft, stipulated when A.C.T. came to San Francisco that the local board must serve only as fund raisers, with scant say over what plays he chose, what actors he cast, or how he ran things. By the late 1970s, predictably, board members demanded more power. Ball refused, and ultimately they quit...
Over the past decade, as military dictatorships toppled throughout Latin America, Stroessner kept the army's loyalty by cutting it in on contraband, kickbacks and theft. A state of siege, regularly renewed and lifted only two years ago, empowered police to arrest thousands of opponents. Early in Stroessner's regime, critics were routinely branded as Communist subversives, often tortured and killed; in later years, foes were jailed or exiled...
...Soon afterward, federal prosecutors in Boston dropped obstruction of justice charges against LaRouche. Four years of investigations into the financial shenanigans of the LaRouche movement had come to an end. "This is not a political case," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson. "This was a case of theft...
...salvage his case, Walsh appealed to Gesell to modify his directive. The judge turned him down last week, leaving the prosecutor with little alternative to dropping the theft and conspiracy counts. The dismissal of those charges makes it virtually certain that Walsh will withdraw similar accusations against former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, retired Air Force General Richard Secord and businessman Albert Hakim, though they too still face a range of charges such as obstructing Congress and offering illegal gratuities to North...