Word: bulleteer
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Having laid low while President Jacques Chirac took the heat for losing France's referendum on the European constitution, Nicolas Sarkozy is back, in the guise of a self-styled crimebuster. After an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet while washing the family car in La Courneuve, a desolate banlieue outside Paris, France's newly reappointed Interior Minister vowed that "the thugs will disappear" and that he'd "cleanse" the quarter. Two days later, Sarkozy decried that a man who had been granted early release from life imprisonment is now implicated in the June murder...
...bitter Philadelphian put it, "finally went and opened up." The informant, whoever it was, knew what he was talking about. The federal men had to dig only one hole to find the bodies. Schwerner and Goodman had each been shot through the heart with a single .38-caliber bullet. Chaney had three slugs in his body and, according to an unofficial autopsy, had been brutally beaten. "In my 25 years as a pathologist," said Dr. David Spain of New York after examining Chaney's body at his mother's request, "I have never witnessed bones so severely shattered...
...people who had been enslaved for two centuries, then denied many of their country's basic civil rights for another hundred years. In 1968, at the age of 39, this Southern Baptist preacher, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, was cut down by an assassin's bullet. On that day the charismatic leader became the transcendent martyr...
...slashed 100 times, and one of her breasts was cut off with a sharp instrument. One day later police received an envelope addressed with letters cut from a newspaper. Its grotesque contents: part of the woman's genitalia. On the morning the bodies were discovered, a copper-jacketed Winchester bullet was found in front of a hospital near the murder site. The proximity of the bullet, and the possibility that surgical gloves and a scalpel were used in the killing, led police to question the hospital staff. No one was charged, though...
...subordinate, "Just keep stalling, stall and appeal, stall and appeal." At a detention hearing for two of the defendants last week, an FBI agent testified that LaRouche once reportedly said of a prosecutor who was investigating the case, "The s.o.b. does not deserve to live. He should get a bullet between the eyes...