Word: gunman
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...slot is less visible and less dangerous. This might be something Powell's wife can deal with. Also, being vice president would allow Powell to be the power behind the throne, giving him access without being in the glare."16 Children Killed In Scottish ShootingDUNBLANE, SCOTLAND: A heavily armed gunman burst into a Scottish elementary school at 10 a.m local time Wednesday and fired at a class of five- and six-year-olds in the gymnasium, killing a teacher, 16 children and then himself. Such acts are almost unheard of in Scotland, where gun laws are much stricter than those...
...fired the first hostile gunfire of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission Friday as they defended a wounded Italian military engineer. Corporal Elio Sbordoni was shot in the arm by an unknown sniper who fired on a hotel complex housing Italian soldiers in Vogosca, a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The gunman escaped. NATO officials, who define a 'firing incident' as five or more shots fired in succession, are counting roughly 400 such incidents per day in Sarajevo...
...movements out of those areas. Apache helicopters will keep constant watch near U.S. troop units when the fog so common above Bosnian snowbanks lifts enough to permit the choppers to fly. Anti-sniper teams, equipped with heat-detection units and long-range rifles, will be able to defeat any gunman waiting to ambush approaching soldiers...
Hill's largest invention, one entirely in keeping with his apparent determination to make the most radically revisionist western ever, is a backstory shared by Wild Bill and Jack McCall (David Arquette), who history teaches us brought the gunman's career to an end by shooting him in the back. Seems that the former loved and rather crassly left a decent woman named Susannah Moore (the lovely Diane Lane). Seems McCall is her child by a previous liaison. Seems Hill has seen too many movies in which young western gunmen are anachronistically portrayed as if they were modern juvenile delinquents...
...eerie," says TIME's Edward Barnes. "They did this at three in the morning and there was still a crowd." Barnes says that such reenactments are common in Israel, especially when suspects have confessed. "It does tend to reinforce the view that this guy was a lone gunman, lurking in the shadows. There is still no evidence that he had help in planning or executing the attack...