Word: gunfights
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...vague: check out a mansion 20 miles outside Medellin, the hub of the country's cocaine industry. At daybreak a 20-man elite police unit moved in. When the gunfight ended almost half an hour later, all 15 people inside the house were under arrest. But it was only when police demanded the papers of the captives that they realized they had cornered one of Colombia's most powerful and dangerous cocaine drug lords. Exclaimed Police Major William Lesmes: "We've caught him! This is Carlos Lehder Rivas." Dressed in a T shirt and blue jeans, Lehder muttered, "This...
...Enrile and Ramos staged their revolt in Manila, Cory, 350 miles away in Cebu, at first lay low in a Carmelite monastery. But as the revolution continued, she hurried back to Manila, ready to take charge. While her advisers collapsed in exhaustion around her suburban bungalow and a gunfight continued less than a block away, the President-elect serenely announced that she planned to take a shower and get changed. Then she had herself driven to her inauguration in her white Chevrolet van, stopping at every red light...
This adulation bothers Father Roy Snipes, a local priest who has buried many of the gunfight victims. Yet Snipes and others sense a small but rising concern now that drugs, which once only passed through the county, are finding their way into local schools. At a Mass last month, the outraged priest played one of the smuggler ballads and then asked his congregation, "There's a war going on. It's good against evil; what do you want?" As worshipers applauded and gathered around him afterward, the answer was obvious...
...guitar player he has hit on a role that carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal in Tombstone, the dust-blown Arizona town best known for a gunfight that gave him his fame, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Today McNeely is Tombstone's marshal. Tourists often ask him for his autograph, and he is flattered...
...series of pranks that led to the fire beganbefore midnight and involved about sevenundergraduates. The kidnapping of a residenttutor's stuffed animal precipitated a squirt-gunfight, which led to the pennying of doors and thefuming of rooms with cologne, Corcillo said...