Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene of the shooting, police discovered a .30-06-cal. shell casing on a grassy mound in a triangle formed by an exit ramp from Interstate 69, about 40 yds. from where Jordan collapsed. Three patches of matted grass were found in the area, indicating that at least one gunman had been waiting for Jordan with a hunting rifle. But the FBI refused to speculate about whether more than one assailant was involved. Police scoured the area by helicopter and on their hands and knees. They searched nearby trash bins and sewers and interviewed guests but turned up only...
...rise to fears that Libyan death squads may be operating overseas. Four anti-Gaddafi Libyans were murdered in Rome and London earlier this year; suspects arrested for the crimes are all fervent supporters of the colonel. At week's end a fifth Libyan dissident was assassinated when a gunman got his victim to accompany him to a Rome cafe, then pumped two bullets into his head. Italian police arrested a Libyan citizen who reportedly confessed to the murder, saying that the dissident was an "enemy of the Libyan people and of Gaddafi, which are one and the same." Though...
...gunmen opened fire on their Iranian prisoners, killing one of them and wounding two others, including Chargé d'Affaires Gholam Ali Afrouz. Given the amount of terrorist fire occurring at that moment, said Morris, it was a miracle that only one man was killed. When one gunman took careful aim at an S.A.S. commando entering through a window, Constable Lock tackled the terrorist, and the commando shot the gunman dead...
...service was held to honor El Salvador's most outspoken champion of nonviolence and human rights, shot dead during a Mass six days earlier by a lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently...
...week's end there were still no arrests in connection with the archbishop's assassination. The junta asked Interpol to help find the killer, on the suspicion that he was probably a hired gunman. Said José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democratic Party and a member of the junta: "There is nobody in El Salvador, either on the left or right, who is capable of so efficient a murder. To us, it seems like a contract job." U.S. Ambassador Robert White agreed, adding that a government official had informed him that right-wing Cuban...