Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amsterdam, a gunman carrying a can of gasoline burst into Casa Rosso, a gambling and sex club in the city's red-light district. As horrified guests watched at gunpoint, the man, a former employee, doused the floor and stairs with gasoline. He then shot his pistol into a fuel can, instantly setting the place ablaze. Patrons mobbed exits and jumped from upper-story windows as the fire consumed four 17th century row houses in the brothel and casino complex. The toll at week's end: 13 dead, 25 injured...
...sedan outside his home in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens, for the 30-minute drive to his office in downtown Athens. This time, however, two men on a Vespa motor scooter were shadowing him. When the car stopped for a red light, the scooter zoomed alongside, and a gunman fired seven shots from a .45-cal. pistol, killing Tsantes instantly and fatally wounding his driver...
Tsantes, 53, was the first American to be killed by terrorists in Athens since Dec. 23, 1975, when CIA Station Chief Richard Welch was shot down outside his home by a gunman with a .45-cal. pistol. Hours after last week's shooting, a man telephoned the Greek daily Elefterotypia and claimed responsibility for the killing on behalf of the 17th November Revolutionary Organization, the group that took responsibility for Welch's assassination. Ballistics tests later showed that Tsantes had been shot with the same gun that killed Welch...
...latest allegations of this sort cropped up in New York courtrooms last week. Two men who had cooperated with the special federal prosecutor were killed in the summer of 1982 just as the prosecutor's investigations were winding up. Last Wednesday the Mafia gunman in one of those murders was convicted in New York City: according to Bronx Assistant District Attorney Martin Fisher, Phil Buono killed Informer Nat Masselli, the son of a mobster, in order "to help and protect the Schiavone Construction Co. and Raymond Donovan...
Reagan and Shultz deliberately continued to play golf on Saturday, knowing that a sudden return to Washington would fuel speculation. Suddenly, in the afternoon, Reagan took a break for a bizarre reason: a drunken gunman wanting to see him had crashed his pickup truck through a golf course gate and held hostages in the club's pro shop. After trying in vain to talk to the man by telephone, Reagan was whisked back from the 16th hole to the Eisenhower cabin by heavily armed Secret Service agents...