Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white officials, Jones had tried to cover up the attempted misuse of funds. Reno quickly called a rare Saturday session of a grand jury to get him indicted; the school board called an equally unusual Sunday session to suspend him from his job. Jones was quickly convicted of theft and is awaiting sentence. Although his guilt was demonstrated, many Miami blacks saw the swift action against Jones as markedly different from Reno's failure to prosecute the physical crimes committed by white police...
...undergraduate parking lot on the corner of Western Avenue and Storrow Drive closed permanently yesterday because of growing vandalism and theft...
...rubber-tent slums of urban shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally abundant corn crop has been savaged by severe drought; about 200,000 people are dependent on emergency Red Cross food shipments...
...carrying pistols. In the van, officers discovered a sawed-off shotgun, a rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition and radio equipment. Just what was up is still a mystery, but Police Chief William McHugh is convinced that "something bizarre and dangerous was imminent." The eleven were all charged with theft and unlawful use of weapons; one of them was also charged with armed robbery...
Liddy retaliated. He found a way to tap prison staff telephones, then embarrassed the officers with his knowledge of their sexual affairs and theft of prison property. At his final prison stop, the federal prison camp at Allenwood, Pa., Liddy enraged one group of convicts by persuading guards to turn off TV sets after midnight so he could sleep. The angry prisoners first harassed him, then even vowed to kill...