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Word: plunders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...According to the martial-law decree, all residents of Kabul were ordered to surrender firearms to the police within 24 hours; violators would be taken before "military-revolutionary" courts. A TASS dispatch from Kabul explained that the Interior Ministry had ordered the martial law and curfew in response to "plunder and arson" by Muslim insurgents and what it called "foreign agents, mercenaries and stooges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Deeper into the Quagmire | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

Many people are selling to avoid rising insurance costs and the risk of robbery, which is epidemic. Burglars increasingly are breaking into churches and synagogues to plunder sacred pieces of silver and gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Melting Pot | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...murderer to enter the U.S. is one of them. Still worse is the U.S. Government's imposition of a murderer as ruler of Iran. When Carter became President, he continued the policies of his predecessors ?that is, he tried to perpetuate the rule of the criminal Shah and plunder Iran. When our nation rose against Pahlavi tyranny, Carter did all he could to keep him in power. He failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: An Interview with Khomeini | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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