Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until this time the Museum has not been equipped with burglar alarms because every exhibit is locked at night and movement between rooms is difficult. Also, a watchman is supposed it make a tour of the building every two hours...
...vagrant law officers" halted a bus near the village of Gressier, 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, ordered out a peasant suspected of being anti-Duvalier, shot him three times in the back, twice more in the head, in full view of the passersby. Last week a night watchman at a highway maintenance depot who refused to hand over supplies for the Macoutes was found beaten to death and his body tied upright with barbed wire...
...take issue of the Quincy House newsletter, adorned with a legitimate looking red Quincy shield, announced last night that superintendent John Allen would permanently look all exits except the one near his office. That gate, the issue reported, would be locked most of the night while the watchman made his rounds so "no one will get in or out of the House unseen...
...S.A.O. last week reached out be yond the borders of Algeria. At Alenc,on in Normandy, an S.A.O. gunman murdered a Communist Party organizer who had formerly lived in Algiers; in Paris a carload of S.A.O. terrorists shot up Communist headquarters and wounded a night watchman. An S.A.O. theft of 297 Ibs. of plastic explosive from a U.S. Army base was followed by the seizure of small arms and munitions at the French army's Camp Satory, near Paris...
Clues were scarce. The typical whine of the burglars' Citroën truck was heard at about 3 a.m. as it pulled away from the scene; but police were still looking for the truck itself. The museum's semiofficial watchman had spent the night with a sick relative. Local police were snugly in bed until the next morning, when Charwoman Incarnation Olivares arrived, took one look at the bare walls, shrieked: "Mon Dieu, they have pulled off the museum...