Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walsh gave one big reason for asking U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell to dismiss charges of conspiracy and theft of Government property against the ex-Marine: intractable problems in protecting classified information contained in documents that both the prosecution and the defense have said are essential to their efforts. Said Walsh: "A continuing problem in the case has been the protection of national-security information in light of this defendant's insistence on disclosing large quantities of such information at trial." Gesell is likely to approve Walsh's request this week...
...imprisoned for 60 years and fined $3 million. His lawyers nevertheless boasted that they had crippled the prosecution. Crowed North's chief counsel, Brendan Sullivan Jr.: "The heart of its case is destroyed." He hinted that North would continue to use the tactics that had forced dismissal of the theft and conspiracy counts, declaring that Walsh "refuses to recognize that classified information pervades the remaining charges as well...
Racial trouble has been brewing at Hehai since last November, when the authorities erected a wall around the African students' dormitory, ostensibly to "protect" the foreigners and their possessions from theft by jealous Chinese students. The Africans objected in a letter to university officials, denying any need for protection. Then they tore down the wall. The Chinese deducted the cost of the damages from the $75 state stipends that the black students collect each month. In reply, 54 African students occupied the campus bank that handled the penalty transaction, dispersing only after the university president promised full reimbursement...
...bought in bulk. For the next ten years the Bowery became his route every November and December. In 1976 he was in the subway, taking two bags containing $220 worth of newly purchased gloves back to his office, when someone grabbed the gloves and ran. He reported the theft to the police, the New York Times heard of the incident, and for the first time the world read about the "glove...
Manna said that the union has never been contacted with complaints of an assault but added that it was not unusual for support staff members to complain about theft in the work-place. The woman who was raped was not a union member, Manna said...