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...tempting target, and it attracted some sophisticated thieves. Around midnight, they broke into Miami's Trend-line Jewelry, a large wholesaler of precious metals that also dealt in foreign markets. They knew enough about electronics to thwart a complex alarm system, one that used sonar equipment and electric eyes. They knocked out a second series of alarms that guarded four safes, and then managed to open one and to cut into two others with acetylene torches...
...sporting goods store for $120. A sporting goods store is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned when they upheld the people's right to bear arms in a "well-regulated militia." We may not be able to quell human destructive impulses, but we can do much to thwart them. Lowenstein's memory would be honored if we renewed our resolve to bring weapons of murder under the rule...
...door of the Inter-Continental Hotel, where most Western journalists have been confined. Soviet tanks are still deployed near public buildings and key intersections. Other armored vehicles have effectively divided the city in two by blocking the bridges across the Kabul River. It is an apparent attempt to thwart any renewed threats of attack against the Soviet embassy or the modern housing compound where many Russian families live...
...from radical Libya to reactionary Saudi Arabia, the Carter Administration is being less fastidious about the humanitarian virtues of the various regimes than it would have been before the Afghan crisis. A month ago, for example, Pakistan was a triple target for American pressure: the U.S. was working to thwart the country's nuclear aspirations, goading the military government to restore democracy, and withholding military supplies. Now U.S. policymakers look at Pakistan as a vital and vulnerable piece on the strategic chessboard, and they are muting their civics lectures and reversing their arms-sale policy accordingly...
Guinier also said he doubts the administration's support for the Afro-American Studies department. "Dean Rosovsky has done everything to thwart the development of the department. He personally opposed the establishment of the department. He has always believed that the department should be a committee," he said...