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...weeks ago, Kevin Patrick Moran, 22, an honors student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was killed by a bullet as he attempted to put out a fire at the beleaguered Isla Vista branch of Bank of America (TIME, April 27). It was widely reported that he had been shot by a sniper, while he and other moderate students dealt directly with the attacking radicals...
...hope of avoiding bloodshed, asked the police to stay out of the area and let them put down the radicals and defend the bank. The student defenders succeeded, after numerous fistfights with the attackers. But in the melee, Kevin Moran was killed by a sniper's bullet...
From a distance of 200 yards, we knew something was wrong. Before, the men and boys had been crowded into a bandstand, and you could see their black shirts from far away. Today the place seemed nearly empty. We got out of the car and ran. Blood, flies and bullet holes were everywhere. Crouched in one corner were the 50 survivors, every one of them wounded or sick, waiting to be shot...
Promising to return within two hours, we scooped up the most pitiful of the wounded, a little eight-year-old boy with two bullet holes in his mangled right leg, put him in the back seat of the car and rushed back to Phnom-Penh. All the way, he kept a tight grip on Allman's hand; it was the only way we knew he was still alive. We dropped him off at the French hospital...
...similar bushwhacking in Porto Alegre, Brazil. When four masked men blocked his station wagon with a Volkswagen, Cutter gunned the motor and rammed his way out of the ambush. The would-be kidnapers raked Cutter's wagon with machine-gun fire, but his only injury was a bullet in the right shoulder...