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Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 3

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Tucson Citizeni
Location:
Tucson, Arizona
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3
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Saturday December 19 1981 Tucson Citizen Page JA 1 of 7 heists here Interstate Bank branch robbed By MARY SCHMIDT ClUmi Suit Writer A MINIATURE CHRISTMAS Children at the San Xavier Mis- exchanged gifts with members of the audience Local civic clubs sion School conducted their annual Christmas pageant for senior help sponsor the party citizens yesterday Following the performance the youngsters Citizen photo by Manuel Miera The Liquor Dan store af 6121 Sixth Ave was robbed shortly after 10 last night by a man with a small silver-colored automatic handgun police said They said he walked in the front door pointed the gun at the clerk and told the clerk to put all the money in a bag When he received it he ran south on foot police said At 11 last night a woman in her late 30s robbed Beverage Bam 2750 Country Club Road Police said she entered the store pulled out a long-barreled 22-caliber revolver and demanded money She then left on foot with the cash but witnesses said they heard a vehicle dnve away from the south side of the store immediately after she left police said Shortly after midnight a man entered the Pizza Hut at 9495 Golf Links Road ate a pizza and then pulled a gun on the manager and a clerk and demanded money Police said the two employees were bound and left in a back room while the robber fled The robbery was the second within a few days in which the robber was described as having a "heavy British police said About 1 am today one shot was fired by a man who robbed Travel Lodge 222 Freeway as the robber was being pursued by an employee of the motel police said They said the man armed with a long-barreled revolver took an undetermined amount of cash from the night clerk before the other employee reported to be armed began chasing him through a hallway The man fled after firing one shot officers said A man carrying a sawed-off shotgun robbed a First Interstate Bank Branch yesterday in front of 17 customers police said No one was injured It was the first of a total of seven robberies two believed to have been by the same person in Tucson yesterday last night and early this morning investigators said In the bank robbery at 2:35 pm yesterday at 7115 Tanque Verde Road a man walked in with a shotgun in his hand and demanded cash investigators said The money was placed in a canvas bag and the man ran out the door and into a blue van with a red stripe investigators said adding that the van was driven by another person A van fitting the description of the one used in the robbery was found abandoned late last night a few blocks from the scene of the robbery A few minutes after 6 pm yesterday a man about 20 years old entered the Dairy Queen at 45 Valencia Road showed the clerk a small gray handgun and said "Give me all the money you have I want to hurt police said They said that the man who was only about five feet tall left on foot after the clerk put an undetermined amount of cash into a paper bag Almost three hours later a man fitting the same description entered another Dairy Queen at 1050 22nd St as it was closing pointed a small handgun at the clerk and told her to give him all the money police said They said he put an undetermined amount of cash in his pocket and fled east on foot Polish strikers persist against regime 80 miners and policemen were injured in the fighting The Communist military government has said that 200 people have been injured in clashes since martial law was declared last Sunday when Solidarity the independent labor federation was banned They blamed the bloodshed on provocateurs who not want Poland to return calmly to Associated Press correspondent Thomas Netter reported that Warsaw was quiet yesterday after disturbances Thursday in which young protesters were routed by club-swinging police Heeding a Solidarity request thousands of Warsaw residents turned off their electric lights Thursday night and put candles in their windows to express support for the trade union for Vienna by plane From there they plan to enter Poland by train A high-level Polish government official told the US Embassy that strikes are under way at 43 enterprises in eight provinces the State Department said yesterday A young miner who was at the Wujek mine in southern Poland where seven of his co-workers were killed Wednesday related his account of the' fighting in a report from Poland yesterday It was the first officially confirmed incident in which Pol- ish troops have killed protesting workers The man said police lobbed tear gas into the mine entrance and then attacked in small groups grappling with chain-swinging miners Radio Warsaw confirmed the seven deaths and said that By The Anociated Pre From the southern coal fields to the giant Lenin Shipyards on the Baltic seacoast defiant Polish workers are reported to be holding out against a military regime determined to crush strikes and restore order Pope John Paul II today dispatched two special enjoys to Poland on a fact-finding mission for the pontiff 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