Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three children are now in a different city, living under an assumed name. His former buddies, he says, "wouldn't mind killing me." Like Chandler and Howard, he had worked to get more black police hired, and the sense of betrayal is bitter. And his anguished decision to trap comrades, Watson says, "is something I still haven't worked out. I probably never will." He is pleased to have shown that cover-ups are not standard procedure in his beloved Chicago department, especially under the reformist administration of Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek. "I knew if I went...
...guerrilla assault in Morazan led the Salvadoran army to escalate the civil war through blanket bombing by Dragonfly jets and closer coordination with Honduran military forces. A military officer in El Salvador confirmed that the two armies were seeking to trap fleeing guerrillas along the border. Solorsa claimed that Honduran forces had actually crossed the border and fought the guerrillas...
Hitachi and Mitsubishi fall into a cloak-and-data trap...
...busy and perhaps too mature to notice E.T., even when he is literally under her nose. And there are the cold, calculating adults, represented cloddishly by the nameless, faceless band of NASA men. They are not only aware that E.T. is in town, but also want to trap him and do God-knows-what to him for their own purposes...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Attorney General William French Smith announced the capture and praised the U.S. Marshals Service for an "outstanding investigative effort." The Justice Department had been trying to lure Wilson out of Libya since last year. Twice the rogue agent nearly walked into the trap, then warily drew away. The final-and successful-plot, devised by the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, was deemed "too risky" by the FBI, according to Justice officials. But the unheralded Marshals Service, a 2,100-member arm of the Justice Department, responsible for capturing fugitives, embraced the scheme. "The marshals...