Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exactly 13½ hours after the DC-6 touchdown at Mount Pocono, a young American walked onto the 19th floor of a commercial office building in downtown Bogota and pumped three hollow-point bullets into Octavio González, 38, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Colombia. González slumped to the floor dead. The gunman quickly reloaded and, while secretaries scattered, fired several more shots before putting the revolver to his head and killing himself...
...victory was doubly impressive, since the referendum came four days after the kidnaping of Antonìo Maria Orìol y Urquijo, 63, an influential Basque financier who, as chief of the Council of State, is Spain's fourth-ranking official. Oriol was taken from his downtown Madrid office by gunmen from a leftist organization known as G.R.A.P.O. (First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group), who at first demanded the release of 15, then all political prisoners from Spanish jails...
...judge threw out the conviction. A new trial was planned, but last summer the original prosecutor died of a heart attack. His replacement was going through the files when he came upon a startling piece of evidence: a Canaan fireman and his wife had seen Reilly driving in downtown Canaan at 9:40 p.m. and they had told police about it. Though that substantially backed Reilly's story, the defense was never informed of the statement...
...still vibrates along the sagging boardwalk and ravaged back streets of Atlantic City. Since New Jersey's voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal to legalize casino gambling in that neglected aunt of Eastern resorts, money has poured into the city as if gold had been found beneath its soiled beaches. Downtown real estate values have soared 200% or more as speculators and promoters of every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected to wind up cozily close...
...offenses, the backcourt is expected to take up the scoring slack. "Jonas is going to have a shoot more," says Irion with additional scoring punch supplied by the injury-prone Rodgers, who sat out last year. Irion also should have a free rein to gun from downtown. "I have a lot of confidence in my shot. At first Satch was pretty reluctant to let me fire from outside but he's come around...