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...circuited the wiring and removed vital parts, reducing $500,000 worth of equipment to electronic scrap. But Swiss authorities warn that the scam may have a different twist: accounts of the CIA's role might have been planted by the KGB to reduce Western anxieties about the wholesale theft of technology by the Soviets...
...found that three out of four of those polled would refuse to inform on a serious tax evader if they had evidence to convict him. A slogan spray-painted in red on a bridge spanning Boston's Charles River seems to sum up a growing sentiment: TAXATION is THEFT...
...century of legal skirmishing solved nothing; the spirits rose again at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in June 1975 when militant leaders of the American Indian Movement and federal authorities faced off. It began when agents arrived to arrest a young man for the theft of a pair of boots. But the FBI, claims Matthiessen, saw AIM as a conspiracy against the Government, and matters accelerated beyond reason. In came a "large force of sweating, nervous men in new battle fatigues. After all the smoke and gas had blown away, there was only this solitary Indian, killed much...
...identified only as "John Doe," was arrested earlier this week and arraigned on charges of forgery, theft by deception, tampering with public records, and false swearing...
Italy was different. Very different. For starters, theft is rampant in Italy--a type of thievery tinged with miscnievousness. In my first week at work a colleague and I went to his apartment for lunch one day. During our meal the phone rang. His wife answered, spoke briefly and hung...