Word: gunman
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FOOTNOTE: *The crack "Go ahead--make my day" was originally spoken by Eastwood to a gunman he was holding at bay with a .44 Magnum in the 1983 movie Sudden Impact. It reappeared last fall in a parody of the New York Post put together by editors, most of them anti-Reagan, who imagined the President starting a nuclear war by throwing down that dare to the Kremlin. When Reagan was shown last week's Post, which used the same headline on a story about his speech, says an aide, "the President got the biggest boost out of that...
...look so bad," said the gunman to one of the four youths who had accosted him. "Here's another." With those chilling words, New York City's acclaimed "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz fired another shot at Darrell Cabey, 19. Goetz had already wounded the young man's three friends, who lay bleeding on the floor of the subway car. When he saw Cabey with no blood on him, he decided to shoot again. These details of the Dec. 22 incident were made public last week in a report written by police in Concord, N.H., where Goetz surrendered last New Year...
...Concord detectives, a New York grand jury decided not to indict him on the four attempted-murder charges sought by the Manhattan D.A. The jury charged Goetz only with illegal weapons possession. At week's end Troy Canty, one of Goetz's victims, decided to testify against the gunman, without immunity from prosecution. His testimony could constitute "new information," which would be grounds for resubmitting the case to a second grand jury...
...country. In Peru, 19 members of a U.S.-sponsored program to eradicate coca bushes in the wilds of the Amazon jungle were killed, four of them, the State Department was told, after being tortured. In Bolivia, intelligence agents discovered that Colombian and Bolivian cocaine traffickers had paid a gunman $500,000 to murder U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr (the ambassador continues to drive around La Paz, varying his routes and his routine each...
...Syrians led him to an army encampment near Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. Then he was taken to a Syrian intelligence office, where he described his capture by a lone gunman on the streets of Beirut last March 7. Next Levin was driven to the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascus, where he was turned over to William Eagleton, the U.S. ambassador in Damascus. Said Levin, as tears rolled down his cheeks: "The Orwellian year of 1984 was not a very good one for me, but 1985 is starting out a hell of a lot better...