Word: looted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black footlocker. "You'll be surprised," the caller said. Police were indeed. When they broke into the crate, they discovered a mask and air tube for breathing, containers of fruit juice and water, a bottle for urine, pliers, bolt cutters, eleven smashed padlocks and $250,000 worth of loot, including rare coins, silver ingots and a case of 1934 French champagne. Inside the footlocker were three cement blocks...
...take him to the deacon." Peregrine knocked on the bullet-scarred door of the deacon's office, but no one emerged. "When Amin's boys left, he came out," says Peregrine. "I knew he was in there all the time. The soldiers came only for loot. If they had come to kill, none of us would be here...
...principal military concern of the new government was to gain control of the most important road in Uganda, the 120-mile economic lifeline from Kampala to the Kenyan border. Carrying radios, tape recorders and assorted other loot that came their way with the fall of the Ugandan capital, 2,500 Tanzanian soldiers set off for the frontier at a leisurely pace in a caravan of twelve Land Rovers, three tanks, an armored personnel carrier and a Jeep with a mounted recoilless rifle. A second force, which literally moved at a walk because of a shortage of motor transport, headed north...
...Kampala, the celebrating was mixed with the pillaging of shops and government offices. At a five-hour victory rally, many spectators were carrying loot; one woman mounted a typewriter on her head, and another sat on a newly acquired office chair. Asked a speaker: "What are our new Cabinet ministers to think when they arrive at their offices and discover they don't have chairs to sit on?" A Tanzanian soldier sported the best memento of all: Amin's military cap, which Big Daddy apparently left behind in his haste to depart from the capital...
...minimum security Rahway State Prison, Thomas Robinson, 31, and Melvin Muldrow, 29. Prison officials had discovered, they said, that the culprits would sneak out during the designated visiting hours, practice the trade for which they were originally sentenced, and sneak back in before they were missed. A stash of loot worth almost $5,000 was found in the woods outside the prison...