Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When two Shiite gunmen seized an American jetliner and its passengers in the skies over Greece nine days ago, the event was undeniably a Very Big Story. Once again, America's invisible but ubiquitous enemies had struck, and once again, the guardian of the free world had proven vulnerable. Innocent lives hung in the balance, and difficult questions of national security returned to the fore...
When the heavy door was ajar, four masked men with handguns suddenly appeared and ordered the Wells Fargo employees to disarm and close their eyes. The gunmen handcuffed the four employees and began heaping the cash into a nearby Wells Fargo truck. Within minutes they had stashed $7,896,000, leaving some $12 million behind. The truck was later found abandoned under the Brooklyn Bridge. Said New York City Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro: "They were very calm. And they did it in a very cool and collected manner...
...Manhattan gunmen apparently broke into the Wells Fargo building through the wall of an adjacent building, using sledgehammers and other tools to create a 35-in.-high opening. There were no guards on the premises, and they waited in the Wells Fargo executive offices on the second floor. Though the depot has an elaborate warning system, the robbers set off no alarms. Police investigators suspect that the thieves probably had inside information. The FBI says there are "concrete leads." Asked why the thieves left so much cash in the vault, Nicastro replied, "Maybe they got tired of lifting...
...deepened, Washington's anxiety for the safety of Americans in the area grew: 29 members of the U.S. embassy staff in Beirut were flown by helicopter to Cyprus. The precaution did not protect Terry Anderson, 37, Beirut bureau chief of the Associated Press, who was kidnaped by four armed gunmen late last week. In separate incidents, two British citizens had been abducted earlier. Four other Americans seized by militants over the past year have yet to be released. Still in the country are an estimated 1,400 Americans. The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided- missile cruiser...
John Gavin, the tough-talking U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, could barely contain his rage as he tersely announced that the search for Enrique Camarena Salazar had ended. Camarena, a U.S. citizen and an eleven-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, had been kidnaped by four gunmen in Guadalajara early last month. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who flew Camarena on many of his DEA missions, had been abducted later that same day. The bodies of the men, Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely...