Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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DIED. Rose Valland, 81, art curator who was awarded France's Médaille de la Résistance for foiling Nazi plans to plunder European art during World War II. Valland recorded the destinations of thousands of appropriated paintings and sculptures, thus facilitating later recovery. She also managed to delay a whole trainload of art from leaving the Jeu de Paume in Paris until the city was liberated by Allied troops...
...Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a reaction to 25 years of oppressive plunder," whereas the London incident was "a terrorist act" perpetrated by "a few mercenaries who are being employed by another government." Whom was he talking about? Tehran's favorite enemies, the U.S. and Iraq, who were now working "hand in hand against Iran." He neglected to mention that Washington and Baghdad have...
...Cramps will take almost any song and beat it into submission. When they're through, they gleefully move on to plunder more music from rock's "sacred" archives. "Sunglasses After Dark" gives surf music the thrashing of a lifetime, and "Mad Daddy" experiments with roller rink organ music. Even "B" movies are fair game, as "I was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Zombie Dance" testify...
...wish to tell you that the relief supplies being sent in through Kompong Som and Phnom-Penh never reach the Cambodian people. The Vietnamese have not distributed relief supplies. At the same time, they continue to plunder and to destroy the means of food production that the people have managed to achieve. That's why we appeal to all international organizations to prevent the Vietnamese from taking this aid and to send their personnel to supervise its distribution...
...Venetians wanted more money for the transport job. After months of delay and misery, the deal was made: as part of the fare, the Crusaders agreed to make a detour on their way to Palestine to seize Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, so that Venice could plunder...