Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped digesting the Globe and the Times with my morning Maltex oatmeal and o.j. Reports of Hanafi gunmen upset my stomach, and interest rate changes give me heartburn. So I read the weekly accounts of amazing occurences that are happening right under our very noses: your nose, my nose, Walter Cronkite's nose. I read the schlock news, in papers like Midnight, National Enquirer, and the Star...
...Jorge Favela-a local godfather who has been sought in half a dozen other countries for drug trading-have led to fierce internecine battles for control of the business. The favored weapons are M-1 American-made carbines, preferred in the mountains for their light weight and accuracy; lately gunmen have been using Soviet-made AK-47 automatic weapons. brought home by U.S. veterans of Viet Nam and exchanged for drugs. As a result, the drug dealers in Culiacán are helping Condor's work; the death rate last year was running at 2.7 corpses a day. Postsiesta...
...methodical massacre in the lawyers' office was one of several grisly episodes in a savage spasm of violence in Spain last week, the worst in recent memory. It claimed a total of ten lives, including those of three policemen who were shot down by unidentified gunmen in working-class suburbs of Madrid. A purportedly leftist terrorist group called GRAPO (an acronym in Spanish for Oct. 1 Antifascist Resistance Groups) claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said...
Identical Abduction. Exacerbating the climate of crisis was another shock the same day: Lieut. General Emilio Villaescusa Quilis, 64, head of the special military tribunal that was used in Franco's days to try major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol...
...days of subzero weather, water mains burst or froze, creating extreme fire-fighting hazards. Amtrak canceled trains on eight major routes out of Chicago -and sent 25 cars down to New Orleans to thaw out. However, the cold did bring some blessings. Street crime was down, and three gunmen foolish enough to hold up the Cleveland Trust Co. were quickly caught when their getaway car spun its wheels futilely in the snow...