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...discovered last week near Pier 10, perched on top of a flatbed trailer in the parking lot of a farm- supply company. Not quite sure just why the tank was there, a specially equipped unit of the Baltimore police force dismantled the T-54's two .250- cal. machine guns and carted them off for safekeeping while they searched for the owner. A call to nearby Fort Meade did nothing to clear up the mystery. Eventually, the truck driver responsible for the tank called the police to report two stolen machine guns...
...pistol permit. Although he cited the fact that he routinely carried large sums of cash and valuable equipment, his application was rejected on grounds of insufficient need. Goetz was bitter. On a subsequent trip to his family's Florida home, he bought a nickel-plated, lightweight Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolver...
...Goetz, these potential victims make headlines by lashing out at their tormentors. When Laird Roy Roberson, 29, looked out of his Houston apartment window at 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 and saw two men and a woman trying to break into his car, he picked up a .22-cal. rifle and fired seven shots, killing Darrel York, 18, and wounding Jerome Marshall, 19. A grand jury decided that Roberson had committed no crime...
Revenge rather than self-defense was involved when Leon Gary Plauche, 39, stepped from a telephone booth in the Baton Rouge, La., airport a year ago and killed Jeffery Doucet, 25, with a .38-cal. pistol. Doucet, who had taken up with Plauche's estranged wife, allegedly kidnaped and sexually molested Plauche's son Jody, then eleven. "A lot of people have stated that they would have done exactly the same thing as Plauche, if it had been their son," conceded Prem Burns, chief prosecutor in the Louisiana case. Burns said Plauche has agreed to plead guilty to a charge...
...Cal State-Long Beach 6, Harvard...