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...normally quiet hillside street in Clairton, Pa., a detachment of 44 sheriff's deputies armed with billy clubs arrived last week at Trinity Lutheran Church. After pushing waiting reporters off the church lawn, Allegheny County Sheriff Eugene Coon pointed a chrome bullhorn at the gray stone building and snapped, "Those of you inside the church, do you hear me? You have a court order to vacate. Open the doors and come out!" There was no response. Half a dozen of the deputies then broke down the rear door and arrested four men and three women occupying the church in defiance...
Later the same day, Iranian television cameras recorded a macabre scene at the top of the landing ramp. Gunmen wearing hoods pushed two hostages out through the door and handed a bullhorn to one of them. The man, who was wearing a white shirt, nervously introduced himself as the U.S. consul in Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared...
After the guerrillas quietly moved out of town, Duarte emerged from the church, took a microphone and, while one of the Salvadoran Boy Scouts-the main peacekeeping force in town-held up a bullhorn, praised the "admirable attitude of both sides." Each, Duarte told the crowd, was aware of the "misery, pain, injustice and lack of liberty of the Salvadoran people ... We aren't offering miracles. But Salvadoran people together can gain the miracle of their liberation and peace for all." Said Duarte: "These have been among the most transcendental hours in Salvadoran history...
...With the Minsk dead in the water, her engines stopped, the Holt hoisted flags signaling that it was passing the Minsk on the starboard side. The Minsk hoisted flags warning the Holt to stay away. The U.S. ship proceeded anyway. As the frigate drew near, the Soviets used a bullhorn to warn the Americans to keep their distance. The Holt then turned around and again hoisted flags saying it would pass. The Minsk merely acknowledged the message, waited until the Holt was passing by at 300 yds., then fired four warning signal flares over the American vessel and four directly...
...noon--The demonstration, now growing, moves to the steps of University Hall. One speaker shouts into a bullhorn, "It is time for us to tell the Corporation by action what we've been telling them all fall...