Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zeltner announced he would introduce legislation requiring a minimum three-year prison sentence and permanent revocation of the driver's license of any person caught shooting from a car. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of roadway gunmen. Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn vowed to jail all gun-toting motorists. Said Hahn: "People are going to start learning that this isn't the wild West anymore...
...submachine gun, opened fire on a passing silver-green Toyota Cressida. The hail of gunfire instantly killed the car's driver and fatally wounded his passenger, Local Governments Secretary Jaime Ferrer, 70, a prominent member of Aquino's Cabinet and nemesis of the country's Communist insurgents. The gunmen and two accomplices then roared away into the night...
...journey, a white Fiat suddenly stopped in front of the bus, forming a blockade. Five armed men, four of them turbaned in the manner of Sikhs, burst out of the car, threw Singh off the bus and commandeered his vehicle. After driving the bus to a nearby field, the gunmen opened fire, instantly killing 38 men, women and children and wounding 20 more, two of whom also died...
...hostage drama at Beirut International Airport. Last week Glass, who is on a leave of absence from ABC, became a victim of Lebanese terrorists. On a scruffy seaside road, less than a mile from that same airport, Glass, 36, was ambushed by four carloads of bearded gunmen. After being struck with rifle butts, he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the assailants' autos. Dragged off with him was Ali Osseiran, 40, son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, and their bodyguard- | driver. Glass became the ninth U.S. citizen and 24th foreigner to be held hostage in Lebanon...
...Bobby, "built a structure around the school so everybody could be free." Although students have complained incessantly about Greene's disciplinarian ways, and in February tried unsuccessfully to stage a protest, many take pride in the school's new image. Says Junior Natalie Bien- Ami, 16: "We're not gunmen, we're smarties...