Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane came up to Reagan to tell him that the eldest daughter of El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte had been kidnaped by gunmen. "I wouldn't have bothered you, Mr. President," said McFarlane, "but Dan Rather is here, and he knows about it. He might ask you." A grateful President held his warm smile, armored against any ensnaring questions...
...shape by playing in amateur leagues, as he was doing one night two weeks ago during a pickup game in Dade County's Bunche Park, outside Miami. As half time neared in the scoreless match, a noisy squabble several hundred feet from the game erupted in gunfire. The gunmen charged onto the playing field, firing wildly at wit- nesses to their fight and anyone else who got in the way. Fowles, who once outran a quarter horse for 80 yards, could not outrun the bullets flying at him. Said Charles Benedict, an eyewitness: "What happened to Colin was cold-blooded...
Longowal's murder by terrorists, two of whom were captured, appeared to be part of a new campaign of violence. On the same day that he was shot, gunmen in Punjab killed a local Hindu leader of the ruling Congress (I) Party. The next day, terrorists shot and wounded a government official in the state. The prospects for peace in Punjab now hinge on whether moderates in the Akali Dal will close ranks against the extremists. Many Sikhs are weary of the violence that has disrupted their lives and would welcome as Longowal's successor someone who can bring them...
...ubiquitous TV cameras about their feelings toward the Amal militiamen holding them. Once freed, however, many of them began to vent their anger and bitterness, as well as resentment that their captors had been depicted as anything other than brutish fanatics. Some of the hostages distinguished between the original gunmen who hijacked the plane, thought to be from the fanatic Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), and the Amal militiamen who took control after the first two days. "Once the Amal came aboard, things seemed to settle down some," said Testrake. Yet others were hostile toward both groups. "The Amal...
...West Beirut. Two months later, Terry Anderson, 37, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, disappeared. In May six assailants snatched David Jacobsen, 54, director of the medical center at the American University, from the campus. Only five days before Flight 847 was commandeered, several gunmen captured Thomas Sutherland, 52, the university's dean of agriculture. Jeremy Levin of the Cable News Network, another American hostage taken in Beirut, escaped in February, eleven months after he was abducted. In March two French embassy officials were abducted in Beirut; in May a journalist and a researcher, both French, were kidnaped...