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Around 7:30 the following evening, 24 hours after the empty bus had been found, a startled watchman at a gravel quarry near Livermore, 100 miles northwest of Chowchilla, saw a bedraggled group-all in their underwear-approaching him. The kidnaping victims had been found, and all were well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Escape from an Earthen Cell | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...friend who plays basketball at a small Baptist college in West Virginia. The writing was real hard to read; he was writing left-handed. It seems they have parietal rules at this college, and he was in a woman's dorm around 2 in the morning. This night watchman threw a light on him, but my friend easily outraced him to the door he'd come in through. The only thing was, the night watchman had just locked it, and when my friend hit the door full-blast, he broke his wrist...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Voting Behavior | 5/11/1976 | See Source »

...contained the expanding Russian influence in that region then the USSR would remain second to the US in a basically bipolar balance of power. If Washington could ensure its paramountcy in the region, control the access to its raw materials and be the watchman of its waterways, then it would have maintained a powerful leverage over western Europe and Japan. The "stability" of the international order depends on the containment of the liberation movements and the preservation of pro-US regimes in this strategic area more than in any other. Finally, a successful Persian Gulf intervention appears as the master...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The U.S. and the Persian Gulf: The Logic of Intervention | 2/12/1976 | See Source »

...Another watchman said the change may lead to a "crack-down on some of the less competent watchmen." "The police may want to add some young blood," he added...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras and Mark D. Stegall, S | Title: House Watchmen Moved From B&G To Harvard Police | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...watchman complained about the effects of the jurisdictional change on schedules. "In the past, we only worked evening shifts, from five at night until one in the morning," he said. "Now we'll have to work graveyard shifts that are assigned to us. We'll have no say over our hours," he added...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras and Mark D. Stegall, S | Title: House Watchmen Moved From B&G To Harvard Police | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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