Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the posting in Lebanon opened, Higgins was anxious to get back to the field. No rule barred an officer with Higgins' top clearances from taking the job. But eight months after his arrival in Lebanon, he was kidnaped by Hizballah gunmen near the port city of Tyre. His captors, who quickly found out that he had worked for Weinberger, charged him with being a spy. In a videotape released a week after the kidnaping, Higgins appeared to have been physically abused...
...thing among Afghanistan's mujahedin, who have been feuding since even before the 1979 Soviet invasion. Two weeks ago, rivalries erupted in gunfire when members of the Jamiat-i-Islami faction, a fundamentalist group, were ambushed while returning from a five-day strategy session in the northern Farkhar Valley. Gunmen from a local command of the more radical Hezb-i-Islami faction killed 30 Jamiat men, including seven military commanders. Jamiat quickly pointed an accusing finger at Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hezb's leader, whose power struggle with the Jamiat leadership dates back to the 1970s. Without Hekmatyar's authorization, said Jamiat...
Arafat's statement nonetheless provoked a predictable outcry from Palestinian radicals. "We shall show Arafat and the world that the P.L.O. charter remains very much alive," said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the past two weeks gunmen in Lebanon assassinated Bassam Hourani, a commander of Arafat's Force 17 security arm, and launched attacks on two other Arafat aides...
...offenses as selling weapons and attempted robbery, walk into a gun shop in Sandy, Ore., and leave with an AK-47 under his arm? The easy availability of weapons like this, which have no purpose other than killing human beings, can all too readily turn the delusions of sick gunmen into tragic nightmares...
Mendes' death brought to 93 the number of people killed in land disputes this year in Brazil. Human-rights groups claim that gunmen hired by local landowners are to blame. Many victims, including lawyers, priests and union leaders like Mendes, had been resisting efforts by some landowners to turn large tracts of jungle into profitable grazing land...