Word: gunman
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...couldn't even cry out. After six hours hiding from the gunman who is thought to have executed her boyfriend by the roadside and trussed her up to keep for later, Joanne Lees stepped out of the inky dark of the central Australian desert night. Her hands bound so tightly her wrists were bleeding, and with electrical tape looped round her neck and gagging her mouth, the 27-year-old British tourist stumbled into the headlights...
...heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees heard a bang. It was the last she saw of her boyfriend. Tying her up, the gunman put her into his pickup while he went to the campervan. His mistake, and Lees' fortune, was that he restrained her hands in front, allowing her to maneuver out of the ankle bindings and escape into the bush...
...looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from corrupt deals. He began to puff on a nargileh filled with apple-scented Bahraini tobacco. Barely was the pipe lit when a man walked quickly toward him. Before Mikki could move, the gunman killed him with a three-shot combination known to hit men as "Mozambique style"--a bullet to the forehead and one in each breast. It was a local power play--a battle over cash that may have been spun off by a corrupt deal--but an example of the kinds...
...posters was the image of Raed Dabash, a 20-year-old P.F.L.P. member shot by Israeli soldiers. The activist set to work pasting up pictures of Dabash over the top of some older posters. That was his mistake. The martyr whose posters were obscured was Hussein Abayat, a gunman who became the first victim of Israel's policy of "liquidating" Palestinians with snipers and helicopter gunships. He was also a Ta'amra. In Bethlehem that makes him untouchable. The burly Ta'amra ran over, grabbed the P.F.L.P. youth and began to beat him in the marketplace. Within minutes, a gang...
...around was the University of Texas gym, overseen by strength and conditioning coach Jeff (Mad Dog) Madden. "He showed up in a full sweat," for a 60-to-90-min. regimen with "a lot of dumbbell work--an athlete's workout," says Mad Dog. And what focus. While a gunman outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was taking potshots at the People's House, Bush soldiered on, "working out in the residence," reported press secretary Ari Fleischer at the time. With his training equipment installed in the White House, the President takes time nearly every day to feel the burn. We asked...