Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina seized power in the Dominican Republic in 1930, his enemies have led precarious lives, no matter how far from home they fled. In 1935 a gunman burst into a New York City apartment and killed Sergio Bencosme, onetime Interior Minister of the Dominican Republic. In 1952 Andrés Requena, editor of an anti-Trujillo newspaper, was gunned down in another Manhattan apartment. Last year Jesús de Galindez. author of an anti-Trujillo book, disappeared, and all signs pointed to another assassination. All the while Trujillo complained that he could not understand...
...Garcia, 41, exiled leader of an anti-Trujillo party, stepped off the elevator on the third floor of a downtown Mexico City office building. From the staircase a voice called "Martínez Garcia." Martnez turned and caught a bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot, and the Trujillo critic will probably...
...Numbers. In Detroit, Gas Station Attendant Lonnie Taylor, ordered by a bandit to hand over about $105 cash and then go into the men's room "to count to 100," got to five and hurried out to call police, found the gunman just leaving, was told to get back in and start again-from zero...
...Cadillac. The bullet, a hatband-guided missile, burrowed like a chigger in a short curve underneath Costello's scalp, and came out at the other side of his head without even nicking his skull. At week's end 60 detectives had poor prospects of finding the bungling gunman before he himself was liquidated by 1) Costello's boys, or 2) his frustrated employers. Costello, his feelings more wounded than his noggin, professed amazement over the incident: "I don't have an enemy in the world." Frankie's best guess on whodunit: "I got some...
...Second Thought. Over the police radio sounded an all-cars bulletin: moments before, a gunman had held up the bank in nearby Sellersburg, was headed their way. Pulling his cruiser across the highway, Walts began a check of passing cars. Among them was one driven by Louisville Factory Worker William G. Hassett, 25. The minister, seated in the squad car, watched his friend interrogate the driver, saw a scuffle, heard shots...