Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brisk October morning last year, Henry Liu, 52, a businessman and part-time journalist, was shot dead by Asian gunmen outside his home in Daly City, Calif. Liu's widow suspected that the murder was politically motivated. Under the pen name of Chiang Nam (River South), Liu had written books and articles that assailed Taiwan. "It was a terrorist killing," said Jerome Garchik, Mrs. Liu's lawyer. "Henry Liu was killed to silence his work and also to intimidate Chinese living in America." U.S. officials say that Liu had apparently acted at various times as an agent or informant...
Frustrated by Washington's paralysis in the face of terrorism, Secretary of State George Shultz advocated retaliatory strikes against bomb throwers and gunmen, lest the U.S. become the "Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger preached caution, likening a counterattack to shooting a gun into a crowded theater in the hope of hitting the guilty. That debate is likely to intensify in 1985. Meanwhile, the continuing threat forces leaders into ever tighter cocoons and inflicts on ordinary citizens the alarming realization that all are potential targets for a crazed...
Once again, it seemed, the world was held hostage by a small and fanatic band of terrorists bent on wresting political concessions by menacing innocents. The four or five Arab-speaking gunmen who commandeered Kuwait Airways Flight 221 to Karachi, Pakistan, last Tuesday were believed to be linked to the Hizballah (Party of God). This is the same pro-Khomeini Shi'ite group, based in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, that some U.S. officials think may have been responsible for killing more than 300 people in last year's bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks...
Later the same day, Iranian television cameras recorded a macabre scene at the top of the landing ramp. Gunmen wearing hoods pushed two hostages out through the door and handed a bullhorn to one of them. The man, who was wearing a white shirt, nervously introduced himself as the U.S. consul in Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared...
Nearly four years ago, two gunmen walked into the dining room of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador and killed two American labor advisers as well as a key figure in El Salvador's land-reform program. No one has yet been convicted of the murders, but the two alleged gunmen are in custody awaiting trial. Last week, however, the Salvadoran Supreme Court dimmed hopes that at least one other man implicated in the crime will be tried. It threw out the case against Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrián, a Salvadoran army officer...