Word: gunman
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ASSASSINATED. ANDREI LUKANOV, 58, Bulgaria's first post-communist socialist Prime Minister and a critic of the current economically and politically embattled socialist-led government; by an unknown gunman or gunmen; outside his home in Sofia...
PRETORIA, South Africa: The testimony of a man convicted of right-wing political murders in South Africa may solve a notorious, nine-year-old murder mystery in Scandinavia. In 1986, Swedish prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters...
...could not have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about...
Those suspicions increased late last month when someone fired two shotgun blasts into the home of black circuit-court judge Eddie Hardaway. Although several witnesses say the gunman was black, Hardaway believes white people put him up to it. He sees no connection between the shootings and the rash of church arsons--but other blacks do. In January, Hardaway sentenced two young white men to five years in prison for vandalizing black churches in Sumter County. The day the sentences were reported in the local newspaper, fire destroyed two churches in neighboring Greene County. "Those fires," says Barrown Lankster...
DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND: The massacre of 16 schoolchildren and their teacher last week by a gunman in Scotland has sparked a national debate on gun control in Britain. Thomas Hamilton killed the children and their teacher and wounded 12 others, including two other teachers, before killing himself last Wednesday. Many politicians are calling for more stringent gun laws. "We must take this as a warning that we are becoming like America and act before it is too late," said governing Conservative Party legislator David Mellor. Currently, people must be prove they have a good reason to won a gun and pose...