Word: tunnelling
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Outwitting embarrassed prison authorities, five convicted murderers staged a spectacular escape from Florida's Glades Correctional Institution. The inmates got away by meticulously digging a tunnel from the prison chapel (which they devoutly attended) to a spot just beyond the prison fence. At week's end the dangerous and presumedly armed men were still at large...
...World Trade Center and other New York City landmarks. The explosion in the trade center on February 26, 1993 killed six people and injured more than 1,000. The other targets allegedly on the group's list included the United Nations, the FBI's New York headquarters and tunnel crossings into New Jersey. Federal prosecutors allege that the 12 men were waging a "war of urban terrorism" to punish the U.S. for supporting Israeli and Egyptian governments. The defense is likely to argue that the Muslims are the victims of entrapment and an overzealous informant. Opening statements may start...
...dogs and helicopters searched the muddy sugar-cane fields near Belle Glade, Florida, dozens of police officers hunted for five convicted killers who tunnelled their way out of prison last night. One of the original six fugitives was captured quickly after the breakout, and told police that the six men, who are all Cuban, had planned to go their separate ways after their flight. The prisoners used spoons to dig a 60-ft. tunnel, 8 ft. under the ground, from the prison chapel to the other side of the surrounding wall over a three-week period...
...hospital bed early today after he was found badly burned two stops from the disaster site and police discovered bomb-making paraphernalia in his apartment. Investigators said Leary, an unemployed former computer technician, likely intended to have the bomb go off on the subway while it crossed an underwater tunnel from Manhattan to Brooklyn -- after he had disembarked. But the device -- made with two mayonnaise jars, gasoline, 9-volt batteries and a kitchen timer -- went off before he got away, engulfing the stopped train in flames and melting his own sneakers onto his feet. Leary and two others remained...
There seemed to be light at the end of the Crimson's early-season tunnel after a convincing 4-1 win over Brown last weekend--now, after a loss in which the Harvard offense failed to generate a single tough chance on UNH netminder Trent Cavicchi (scoring only via garbage and a goalie's gift, as it were) and with a seven-game road trip on the way, that light could be of the "onrushing train" variety...