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Overt Step. The operation had been meticulously planned. According to police, the first overt step was taken two days before the breakout when a young man with an American accent, calling himself "Mr. Leonard," arranged to rent an Alouette II helicopter from Dublin's Irish Helicopters Ltd. It would be used, he explained, to photograph historical sites near Dublin...
...series now moves to Madison Square Garden for the third and fourth games, and it is anybody's guess whether it will return to Boston. The Bruins, who won the Stanley Cup in 1970, were typically effective shackling New York's breakout play, resorting to controlled, and sometimes marginally controlled, violence...
That was by far the most spectacular escape since the Ulster government invoked the Special Powers Act last August to crack down on the I.R.A. terrorists. Suspecting another breakout of internees, 1,200 British troops and 60 police made an intensive search of the Long Kesh camp near Belfast, where 500 I.R.A. suspects are detained. The search uncovered hacksaws, chisels, wire cutters, counterfeit money, three imitation tommy guns carved from wood, cosh-like steel pipes-and four gallons of still fermenting poteen (moonshine whisky mash...
...week's end she was still a fugitive, wanted by the FBI if unwanted as a teacher of philosophy by the University of California board of regents. The accusation of murder-supplying four guns involved in a fatal, futile breakout from a Marin County, Calif., courtroom three weeks ago*-dismayed her academic colleagues even while her revolutionary friends lionized her anew. Her situation is in stark contrast to her earlier promise...
...UPSIDE BREAKOUT FROM A BOX tells technicians that a long stalemate between buyers and sellers, which has kept the stock's price in a constricted area, has ended with the shattering of the "topside resistance" line and a victory for buyers...