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Modern Corners. A car with two or three gang members might come cruising down a street past a group of rivals and suddenly a shot is fired into the cluster. The car speeds off, leaving a 16-year-old lying on the sidewalk. Or a sniper's bullet from a rooftop a block away may have the same result. Plans for revenge are made, and a single assassin is often sent out to get a body in return. Such guerrilla-style warfare is, of course, far more difficult for the police to anticipate and stop than the old-style...
...Cermak Memorial Hospital, a 111-bed facility serving the Cook County correctional system in Illinois, a prisoner with a policeman's bullet in his buttock waited three hours for treatment...
...name of security and had been requested by the Secret Service. If so, one must conclude that the Secret Service has become more concerned with aesthetics and amenities than with the President's safety. Among the more curious items in the San Clemente figures: $8,395 for a bullet-resistant screen separating the swimming pool from the ocean (since there seems to be no real threat from the Pacific, it has been suggested that the real purpose of the screen is to secure the President against shore breezes); $9,910 to "remove dry weeds to eliminate fire hazards...
...freedom: $80,000 in ransom money. A day later, the ransom was paid; nine hours afterward, Leonhardy was found, exhausted and unshaven, in a Guadalajara street. He called his 76-hour captivity a "terrible ordeal. I prayed a lot. I didn't know when they might put a bullet through my head...
...Yusufs six children were not harmed, but there were other deaths when the Israelis began making their getaway. During an exchange of fire between the Israelis and the aroused fedayeen guards, a 70-year-old Italian woman looked out of her apartment window and was killed by a stray bullet. Two Beirut policemen entered the fighting and also died. The Israelis suffered no losses as they smoothly rolled out of the neighborhood in their undamaged cars...