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...value of the piece could run to $25,000," C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, director of the Museum said yesterday. "It is a very major theft of a very well-publicized piece," he added...
...principle, there is nothing wrong with it. Practically speaking, it is impossible to implement. What could be done about crime? A man could commit a theft in East Jerusalem and get off scot free by running away to West Jerusalem, and vice versa. I'm afraid that divided sovereignty would soon mean the same walls, mines and barbed wire...
...ought to have a law against issue-lifting." Adds Mike Thompson, head of the Florida Conservative Union: "Republicans must be sharp enough to point out that the Democrats are stealing our issue. If we let them get away with it, we have no one to blame but ourselves. The theft of an issue becomes an issue...
Heavily dependent for income on one export (copper), landlocked Zambia had gone along with the U.N. sanctions at considerable cost. The 1,160-mile Tazara railway, built by the Chinese as an alternative to routes through southern Africa, never became fully operational, because of theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...
Special Counsel Vincent Alto predicted last June that his investigation of fraud, theft and mismanagement in the General Services Administration would result in scores of indictments in about eight weeks. But eight weeks passed, and the score was still zero. At the end of August, GSA investigators said that a packet of indictments would be handed down within a fortnight. A fortnight passed, but there still were no indictments. Last week Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti indicated to a Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices that the GSA probe had been stalled, and indictments could be delayed for another eight...