Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas. Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...
Last week, in the most damaging attack yet, saboteurs cut through a barbed-wire fence at Thornhill Air Force Base near Gweru and destroyed or severely damaged 13 aircraft, about 25% of Zimbabwe's combat force. The government has detained six whites and five blacks who were linked to Nkomo for questioning about the incident. Last March, two former officers in Nkomo's Zipra forces-KGB-trained Dumiso Dubengwa, who served as intelligence chief, and ex-Deputy Commander Lookout Masuku-were arrested after Mugabe's men discovered large caches of arms and ammunition on property owned...
...fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...
...searched company offices in New York City and San Francisco in December 1980, and ultimately combed through stacks of records and import statements dating from 1977 to last June. The hunt turned up evidence that Mitsui had conspired with two Northern California steel buyers to overstate the price of wire products and nails. Both U.S. firms last year pleaded guilty to criminal charges brought in separate cases...
Police arrested Michael Fagan, 31. He had apparently scaled a 10-ft. wall topped by spikes and barbed wire, shinnied up a drainpipe, and climbed through a window to roam the vast palace corridors. Fagan must have given Her Majesty quite a start. Reportedly, he wore jeans and a dirty T shirt, and dripped blood on the royal bedclothes from a lacerated hand. He cradled a broken ashtray as he sat on her bed. But he made no threatening moves against the 56-year-old monarch, preferring instead to chat about the coincidence that each of them has four children...