Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the nation were the executives of companies like Texas Instruments, Chevron, Phelps Dodge, Kimberly-Clark, Texaco and Crown Zellerbach. Any time in the last 40 years, some carefully applied American pressure might have spawned major reform. Probably anytime, that is, until March of last year, when a rightist gunman shot and killed Archbishop Oscar Romero as he celebrated Mass. Perhaps anytime until November 28 of last year, when six leaders of the Democratic Revolutionary Front were assassinated. Maybe, though probably not, even today. As the crisis deepened, more decisive action would have been necessary. Instead, the Carter administration fooled...
...cashiers described one gunman as being in his mid-30s with a beard and glasses, and the other as tall with broken teeth and a "lamb-chop beard...
...black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged around his car and ducked for cover as seven shots rang out. Two 7.65-cal. bullets from the gunman's semiautomatic Beretta pistol slammed into the right rear fender of the car, and another hit the right rear side, but Chapman and his driver escaped unhurt...
...becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past catches up with the nouveau aristocrat of Norfolk. Fortunately, he has thought to pack his two .44 Remingtons...
Meanwhile, about 3½ miles away, Italian police were still trying to make sense out of the bizarre maunderings of Mehmet Ali Agca, the gaunt and hollow-eyed Turkish gunman who felled John Paul in what he termed a "protest against the imperialism of the Soviet Union and the United States." The terrorist told interrogators that he had first wanted to kill the "King of England" as well as the President of the European Parliament. He said he changed his mind after discovering that Britain was ruled by Queen Elizabeth II and the Europarliamentary President was a woman, Simone Veil...