Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side of the room and men into the hall. "We thought it was a joke," said Bouchard. They learned otherwise when the gunman pumped several rounds into the ceiling. Shouting, "You're all a bunch of feminists!" to his women hostages, Lepine opened fire, killing six on the spot...
...military, you may be in a position to spike the weapons systems. If you're in media or if you're an electronics whiz, you might break into a boring Bush speech with a jest, or loudly repeat BO-BO-BO, or insert a blinking image of a gunman shooting down a child. What an imaginative computer hacker might contrive boggles the mind...
...cream Renault sedan at a stoplight two blocks from the government-owned Inravision studios, a man waiting on a red Suzuki motorcyle dismounted and opened fire. Bullets from a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun hit Pulido in the throat and shoulder and struck Godoy in the leg. The gunman and an accomplice sped off on the motorcycle, as a passerby drove the victims to the hospital. By week's end Godoy was in stable condition, but Pulido, who lost a lung and suffered heart damage, remained on the critical list...
...State Department domain. "Basically, NSA did an end run around ((director of Central Intelligence William)) Casey," says a senior security official. The NSA went straight to the White House, and persuaded President Reagan to let it replace all U.S. communications equipment in Moscow. In the spring of 1984 Operation Gunman discovered Soviet bugs in 17 embassy typewriters. "NSA's stock rose tremendously after that," recalls a former senior technical security expert...
...official involved in GUNMAN concluded that since some of the typewriter bugs were battery powered, the Soviets must have had a way of getting into secure areas of the embassy to replace these batteries. Remaining in Moscow to figure out how this might be done, this official wrote a report warning that a Soviet Spider-Man was scaling the embassy wall at night, squeezing through a tiny window and making his way to the code room. He also warned that the Soviets had enlarged the flues built into the embassy walls, and that KGB technicians were using them to climb...