Word: vincents
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...curb the violence, the Chicago Housing Authority has begun to enforce a 20-year-old rule forbidding tenants to keep guns on its premises. Since 1988, when Vincent Lane was named C.H.A. chairman, Operation Clean Sweep has sent teams of police and housing-authority guards to conduct surprise searches for weapons, drugs and illegal residents in project buildings. In 1989 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp praised Clean Sweep as a "model for the rest of the country." The operation has posted impressive results so far: the police confiscated 817 weapons last year and 214 in the first...
...private person with an itch to dine out (at Elaine's, at the Russian Tea Room), he wants to be admired but not approached. He says he doesn't read reviews of his work, yet he counts as one of the four most important people in his career Vincent Canby, the New York Times critic whose reviews have exhausted superlatives and sense in praise of Woody. He has few peers at the complex and honorable business of raising a laugh, yet he wants to play in the same league as Bergman, Bunuel, Kurosawa, to create "true literature." On those occasions...
...center of Arizona's sting operation -- quickly dubbed Azscam -- was a flamboyant Las Vegan who called himself J. Anthony Vincent. According to the indictment, Vincent assuaged the legislators' fears about hidden cameras and once reportedly stripped in front of a lobbyist to show he wasn't concealing a microphone. In fact, Vincent was an undercover agent named Joseph C. Stedino. Ortega says that 95% of the evidence comes from audio-and videotapes. In one police videotape, state representative Don Kenney, who faces 28 counts, is seen stuffing $55,000 in cash into a gym bag and joking about cameras being...
...suburban Milwaukee couple. But last summer, as husband and wife cleared away a lifetime of domestic clutter, they called in an auctioneer's agent. His discovery, disclosed last week: the seemingly undistinguished still life was something any avid art collector would give his left ear to own -- a genuine Vincent van Gogh...
...with Iran drained resources, U.S. officials claim, Iraq finally agreed to force him into retirement. Rashid and many other May 15 assets simply transferred to a Palestine Liberation Organization commando unit known as the Special Operations Group. "The terrorism continued, just under a different name," says Vincent Cannistraro, who left the CIA this fall as head of analysis and operations for the agency's counterterrorist center. According to associate deputy FBI director Buck Revell, Rashid is a prime suspect in the 1986 P.L.O. bombing of a TWA flight to Athens that killed four Americans...