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...response to your article "Gunfight at Capitol Hill" [June 6], I suggest that Senator Gary Hart had better check his hearing. The American people are not saying, "Give us what we want." They are saying, "Spend less and we'll take care of ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1977 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...right" and "violence is a great deterrent to crime." The Enforcer, however, can be interpreted as leading to a different conclusion. The revolutionaries, after kidnapping the Mayor of San Francisco and demanding ransom, have holed up in--you guessed it--Alcatraz. Harry and partner arrive, and after an extended gunfight and hide-and-seek game the only survivors are Harry and the Mayor, a pompous, self-serving fool. As he dusts himself off after his brushes with death, the Mayor promises Harry that "There will be a letter of commendation in this for you." Harry drops the bazooka with which...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: How The Bad Guys Finally Won | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...week's end the anguished question remained without answer: Where was Patty Hearst? If indeed she is still alive, authorities believe that she may be found soon. The Los Angeles gunfight cost the S.L.A. its muscle, Donald DeFreeze, and its brains, Nancy Ling Perry. Their combined talents enabled the S.L.A. to dodge their pursuers so successfully in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fiery End for Five of Patty's Captors | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

Since the six-man police department was woefully weak, Thomas and the board deputized Bollinger and a dozen or so sidekicks. Bollinger and his men promised to persuade Latham to leave and, in a gunfight-in which no one was killed-they did just that a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: High Noon After Nightfall | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

After returning to headquarters, the police told reporters about a frantic gunfight they said they'd had with the Panthers. But later investigations disclosed that all the bullet holes from the so-called "shoot-out" had been made by shots fired into the building--that is, by the police...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Murder in the Windy City | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

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