Word: gunman
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...2Given the growing crisis surrounding the peace process, today's tragedy can only emphasize the urgency of moving swiftly and decisively to implement the Oslo Accords, something Netanyahu has been reluctant to do. It may well be that today's incid ent was the work of a lone gunman, but lone gunmen on both sides are symptomatic of the deep emotions that surround almost every Israeli-Palestinian issue...
...Neither of them saw anything, says Sutton, but he's troubled by the fact that the FBI never tried to find out if they might have. In fact, only a few hours after the shooting FBI agents were spreading the word that King's killer had been a single gunman acting alone. Roger Wilkins, then head of the crs, recalls that when he and Attorney General Ramsey Clark were flying to Memphis from Washington the day after the killing, FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. ("Deke") DeLoach "was pushing us hard" on the FBI's lone-gunman theory. How the agency...
...Basque separatist organization ETA struck for the third time in less than 24 hours Tuesday, killing a high-profile businessman and adding to fears that a new wave of separatist violence is in the offing. As mourners in Madrid and Granada commemorated the victims of two earlier slayings, a gunman shot Francisco Arratibel in the Basque city of Toloso during a carnival celebration. Arratibel had admitted earlier that he served as a go-between for citizens kidnapped by ETA and said that he was still on their hit list after surviving two previous assassination attempts. His murder came only hours...
SENTENCED. MARTIN BRYANT, 29, gunman who killed 35 and injured 19 at a Tasmanian tourist spot in April; to 35 life terms; in Hobart, Australia...
Lazio's moderate brand of conservatism has won voters in a district whose ethnic and social diversity might have crushed a lesser candidate. After a gunman with a semiautomatic weapon killed six and injured 19 on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993, Lazio broke with his party to support the 1994 Clinton crime bill and the assault-weapons ban. Lazio speaks out against Big Government, but has also voted for legislation to protect access to abortion clinics...