Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico City, a green 1958 Ford ran him down. Then, just to be sure, one of the occupants of the car ran back and pumped three slugs from a .38-caliber automatic into him. As stretcher men carried Almoina into the hospital, he cried out: "Trujillo's gunmen did this." He died the next...
Gift of Gab. In Yonkers, N.Y., after Patrick Crough. 53, was robbed of $8 by two gunmen, he told them such a hard-luck story that they gave...
While Kishi had been climbing the bureaucratic ladder, Japan was convulsed by a struggle between parliamentarians and militarists. Two Prime Ministers were assassinated by nationalist gunmen, and other top officials killed and wounded. The government struck back by executing 13 army officers for conspiracy, and sending Kishi's discarded hero, Kita Ikki, to a firing squad. But victory went to the militarists. Ignoring orders from Tokyo, the Kwantung army occupied all of Manchuria. By 1937, when full-scale hostilities with China broke out, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet could only be appointed with the approval of the army...
...rapacity and filth of the Garcia administration." Lacson describes politics as "a way to see the world through a garbage can," and he has made enemies among those who scavenge there. Driving home one night, Lacson was nearly killed by a burst of carbine fire. He has twice disarmed gunmen who attacked him and is fatalistically prepared to end either as President of the Philippines or victim of an assassin. "My father was murdered," says Lacson, "and my grandfather was killed by slipping on a cake of soap. I may go either...