Word: trappings
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...passport office on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Though he had been assured that there would be no problems, Lombino, now joined by Campione, nervously showed up an hour early to check out the area. They quickly spotted too many men wearing trench coats and reading newspapers. Sensing a trap, Lombino ran down the up escalators to the street and jumped into a cab before he could be captured. The startled Campione simply disappeared into the crowd...
...Residents of Shatila can get water only from a single pipe sticking out of the ground on the main road outside the camp. At an intersection where some residents put up a defense against attacking militiamen, a bomb crater is filled with old auto tires and a rusted tank trap. Raw sewage oozes up to create a black slick on the muddy rain water that covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care of a United Nations relief agency. Elsewhere, Norwegian and Austrian relief workers have...
...California consulting firm, to collect IBM documents giving crucial details of the company's newest computer technology. Hitachi had made payments totaling $622,000 to get the information. To Hayashi's surprise, he was confronted by a gaggle of FBI agents, who had set an Abscam-like trap to catch Hayashi and his friends...
...signs are bright that Cambridge public school officials will resist the lure of all the new numbers they have to play with. One schools committee member apparently fell into the trap of looking at the scores as a indication of primarily students, not schools; "With a few exceptions," she said, "they're horrendous...
...they would turn over to the West German press photos of him wearing only his socks. West German counterintelligence foiled the plot by extracting a promise from the newspapers not to publish the photos. The KGB tried to snare U.S. Assistant Military Attaché James Holbrook in a similar "honey trap" of seductive female agents during a visit to the Ukrainian city of Rovno in 1981. He reported the misadventure to U.S. officials and was sent home...