Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stranger to politics, but he had never run for public office before. While his backers portrayed him as a competent moderate, his enemies in the ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) denounced him as "the biggest thief in El Salvador." But when the votes were counted in San Salvador's linoleum and plate-glass Legislative Palace last week, the members of El Salvador's newly elected constituent assembly had chosen Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, 56, a U.S.-educated economist and banker, as the country's provisional President by a vote...
...suspect is neither a local vagrant breaking in to steal stereos nor your customary late night prowler. This thief steals laundry--and women's particular. One student claims to have lost more than $200 worth of clothes in a theft from the Holworthy laundry room last month...
...prosecutor is rebuked for pursuing a CIA-connected thief...
...Chelm, some imbecilic peasants play tricks on the village naif (Jack Gilford). For sage advice the victim consults the local, and unfunny, rabbi: "Why is the sea salty?" "Because of the herrings who live in it.'' In The Bandit, Gilford plays Aleichem himself, terrified by a thief, then retelling his role, à la Falstaff, as heroic. In The High School, the longest and most didactic episode, Gilford plays a domineering and ignorant father whose son is anxious to leave the ghetto for the new century. Between these sketches, Adapter Arnold Perl has shoehorned Bontche Schweig, by I.L. Peretz...
Three days after the escape, a woman paying a $35 fine in a San Diego traffic court found she was short of cash. She asked the deputy marshal to call for her companion. Out went the cry: "Paging Raynard DeLeon, paging Raynard DeLeon . . ." DeLeon, an auto thief, was cocky enough to come when called, but he too was broke. He said he would return as soon as he could raise the money...