Word: gunmen
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...wane. Despite the Brighton explosion, the organization had seemed to suffer one setback after another, starting with the September interception by the Irish navy of a trawler loaded with seven tons of arms and ammunition for the I.R.A. In December British soldiers ambushed and killed two I.R.A. gunmen, and last month the FitzGerald government seized more than $1.6 million in suspected I.R.A. bank assets in Dublin...
Ferriola's bosses were apparently sympathetic. On Jan. 10 Yaras was sitting in his car near Rogers Park in Chicago, where he normally collected the Mob's cut from bookies, when two gunmen opened fire, killing him. On Feb. 10 Smith's body was found in the trunk of his car in suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. He had been brutally beaten, and his throat was cut. On Feb. 13 English finished a roast pig dinner at Horwath's restaurant in Elmwood Park, Ill., trading small talk for more than two hours with, among others, two Cook County judges...
...illusion of national unity vanished the next day, however, when thousands of armed Shi'ite militiamen held angry antigovernment demonstrations. The gunmen staged marches, chanted "Death to Gemayel!" and called for the establishment of an Islamic republic in Lebanon. Though the demonstrators stayed only for the day, they infuriated the local Sunni Muslims. Said one community leader: "We just got rid of the Israelis, and now we have these people...
Buckley, 56, is a political officer assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut. He was kidnaped as he left his apartment in Muslim-controlled West Beirut last March 16 by unidentified gunmen. Levin, 52, Cable News Network's Beirut bureau chief, was abducted from a busy West Beirut street about a week earlier. The kidnapers struck again last May 8, seizing Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister, as he walked with his wife in the Muslim section. His wife was left behind unharmed. The two other missing Americans are Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut...
...recent indications are that Duarte's momentum has been halted. Since the new year, there have been at least eleven assassinations, nearly all by leftist gunmen. Further negotiations between the government and representatives of the leftist guerrilla groups are unlikely until after the elections. Reason: mounting right-wing opposition to a negotiated settlement. Rebel leaders, of course, contend that the breakdown of the peace talks means the Salvadoran military is now effectively back in control. According to Ruben Zamora, the bearded vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the guerrilla movement's political arm, "Duarte has no power...