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Wells Fargo loses
$8 million in heist
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Four masked,
armed men broke through the cin-
derblock wall of a Wells Fargo depot
Monday, ambushed and disarmed
four guards and drove off with $8
million, possibly the largest cash rob
bery in U.S. history, authorities said.
It is possibly the largest cash rob
bery in U.S. history.
“There is no indication it was an
inside job,” Kenneth Walton, deputy
director of the FBI’s New York of
fice, said. “It looks like the work of
professional burglars. ... They had
done their homework. They knew,
apparently, where the alarms were,
and more importantly, where the
alarms weren’t.”
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surprised armed guards at the com
pany’s five-story brick garage in
Lower Manhattan at about 1:20
a.m., police said.
The men disarmed the guards,
ordered them at gunpoint to open a
vault, then handcuffed them to a
hand truck and loaded cash into the
van, said Robert Johnston, police
chief of operations.
No one was injured. The robbers
“told (the guards) they were there to
rob the place” and that “they weren’t
going to be hurt” if they cooperated,
Johnston said.
Sgt. Ed LeSchack said the empty
van was found several hours later on
the other side of Manhattan on a
street under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Police learned of the heist about a
half-hour after it began when one of
the handcuffed guards, who was
close to a pay telephone, called after
the robbers left, LeSchack said.
The robbers got into Wells Fargo
by punching two holes through a
cinderblock wall on the second floor
of an adjoining structure, a mail-
room and storage center of Merrill
Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith.
There was no sign of forced entry
into Merrill Lynch, and no alarms
were set off, said Bill Clark, a
spokesman for the brokerage house.
No one has been arrested, but a
suspect has been identified.
Previously, the largest sum ever
stolen from Wells Fargo was the
$7,017,150 stolen in 1983 from the
company’s depot in West Hartford,
Conn.
Four on Display
Photo by GREG BAILEY
The MSC Arts Committee presented a “per
formance artwork” at the Rudder Complex
Monday afternoon as a promotion for Art-
fest ’85. Participants in the display were
(left to right) Danny Unger, Carol Ross,
Todd Whiteman and Patrick Zinn.
VA official says female Vietnam vets ask for more help
Associated Press
Although ten years have passed
since the surrender of South Viet
nam, female veterans of Vietnam
still need help, said Rose Sandecki,
head of the Concord (Calif.) Vet
Center.
There are too few women coun
selors, and help centers tend to be in
rundown, dangerous neighbor
hoods that women are reluctant to
visit, she said.
Sandecki, 44, is the only female
Vietnam vet in charge of any of the
Veterans Administration’s 136 out
reach centers across the nation.
Although the psychological
trauma of. Vietnam is believed to be
widespread among female veterans,
they feel ignored by the VA, com-
plaining of inadequate health care
for women at VA facilities and a lack
of research on how the war affected
them physically and psychologically.
Women literally did not count in
Vietnam, no one even knew for sure
how many were there. U.S. govern
ment estimates range from an ab
surdly low 559 to an improbable
55,000. The Vietnam Veterans of
America estimate that 7,000-10,000
military women served during the
war. Many of the women, unable to
vent their anger and despair over
Vietnam on the enemy, have kept it
festering inside with self-destructive
and occasionally violent results, such
as battering husbands or boyfriends.
Yet they miss Vietnam, too, for
the intense friendships, the camara
derie and the professional challenge.
“We were never allowed to be that
competent again,” said Jane Thom
son, a Navy medic in Vietnam who
helped deliver babies upon return
ing home. Lynda van Devanter
found little professional challenge in
her assignment to the hemorrhoid
ward of Walter Reed Army Medical
Center after Vietnam, and resented
being a doctor’s handmaiden.
van Devanter tried to “re-create
the intensity” of Vietnam by working
in a burn unit, but quit after experi
encing flashbacks where she would
smell napalm in her patients’
wounds.
“You didn’t have to be in a fox
hole in Khe Sanh to experience
trauma from that war,” van De
vanter said. She has chronicled her
Vietnam experiences as a 22-year-
old Army nurse in the best-selling
“Home Before Morning.”
Forced to make life-or-death deci
sions and perform as “junior doc
tors” in Vietnam, the nurses had to
ask permission to administer even
mild painkillers back in the United
States.
Gaining respect and recognition
for the jobs they did in Vietnam has
also proved frustrating for female
veterans, who are campaigning to
erect a statue of a combat nurse at
the Vietnam Memorial in Washing
ton, D.C.
The little research available indi
cates that women who served in
Vietnam were mostly in their early
20s, often fresh out of nursing
school, middle-class and motivated
by patriotism — girls next door who
wanted to do something for their
country and ended up questioning
what their country nad done to
them.
van Devanter describes herself as
a “gung-ho, silent majority, better-
dead-than-red American” flaunting
a tiny rhinestone flag on her fatigue
shirt when she arrived in Pleiku on a
sweltering June day in 1969.
Six months into her year's tour,
she flung the glittering flag to the
ground and walked away after
spending a futile night trying to save
a soldier whose face had been blown
away by “friendly fire.” A prom pic
ture flecked with blood had fallen
from his pocket.
Lin MrClenahan spent her year in
Vietnam processing classified inev
sages on troop movements, casual
ties'and battle plans. I he disci ep
ancy between what she saw and what
the U.S government was telling the
public turned her deep respect for
authority into a lasting distrust.
She came home bitter and hostile.
She saw injustices in everything,
couldn't hold a job and sought solace
in pints of Wild Turkey. Her best
friend told her the horrors she'd ex
perienced in Vietnam served her
right.
“I fell like I'd lived a whole life
time at 21, and was as old as I'd ever
be," McClenahan said. “I felt I
would always be haunted by those
young, young faces and old, old
eyes. Then I was combing my hair in
the mirror one day and saw those
same eyes in my own face.”
Quiz tests
knowledge
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Associated Press
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